Hitchcock for the Holidays

Hitchcock for the Holidays

20 Episodes

Merry Hitch-mas to all! For five decades, Alfred Hitchcock explored our innermost anxieties, desires, and obsessions in his diabolically constructed thrillers, which redefined the mechanics of screen terror through meticulous editing, voyeuristic camera work, and unforgettable set pieces. From early British classics like THE 39 STEPS and SABOTAGE to his endlessly analyzed and imitated 1950s masterpieces such as STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, VERTIGO, and NORTH BY NORTHWEST and often-overlooked late-career auteurist statements like TOPAZ and FRENZY, the Master of Suspense tapped into the peculiar pleasures of fear like no filmmaker before or since.

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Hitchcock for the Holidays
  • Hitchcock for the Holidays Teaser

    Episode 1

  • North by Northwest

    Episode 2

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1959 • United States
    Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason

    Cary Grant stars as an innocent man mistaken for a spy in one of director Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest thrillers, featuring some of the Master of Suspense’s most indelible set pieces. While leavi...

  • Strangers on a Train

    Episode 3

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1951 • United States
    Starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker

    Widely considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest movies, this classic suspense tale taps into the evil that lies hidden just beneath the surface of each of us. When two strangers—tennis sta...

  • Suspicion

    Episode 4

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1941 • United States
    Starring Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce

    Alfred Hitchcock discovered dark new shades in Cary Grant’s star persona with this classic thriller, the director and actor’s first collaboration. Handsome, charming, well-liked Johnnie Aysgarth (...

  • The Wrong Man

    Episode 5

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1956 • United States
    Starring Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle

    With this claustrophobic thriller drawn from real events, Alfred Hitchcock delivered an unusually naturalistic take on his trademark themes, shooting on location in New York with documentary real...

  • Rear Window

    Episode 6

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1954 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey

    Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his powers as a visual storyteller when he made this enduring suspense classic. James Stewart is L. B. Jeffries, an injured photojournalist confined to his...

  • Rope

    Episode 7

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1948 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger

    In this charged thriller inspired by the notorious case of Leopold and Loeb, two Manhattan college friends (John Dall and Farley Granger) strangle a classmate for intellectual kicks and then pro...

  • Shadow of a Doubt

    Episode 8

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1943 • United States
    Starring Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey

    Alfred Hitchcock’s personal favorite of all his films, SHADOW OF A DOUBT is an exceptionally macabre tale of a beloved uncle (Joseph Cotten) whose visit to his sister and her family at firs...

  • Torn Curtain

    Episode 9

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1966 • United States
    Starring Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova

    Paul Newman and Julie Andrews star in Alfred Hitchcock’s gripping Cold War thriller about a nuclear physicist/double agent and his troubled fiancée who must escape East Germany amid dangerous po...

  • Vertigo

    Episode 10

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1958 • United States
    Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

    Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO has been recognized as the director’s most spellbinding and deeply personal achievement—and as one of the greatest films ever made. James Stewart reteams with the ...

  • Saboteur

    Episode 11

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1942 • United States
    Starring Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger

    This crackling World War II espionage thriller stars Robert Cummings as an ordinary munitions worker framed for sabotage and murder. With a reluctant woman (Priscilla Lane) by his side, he g...

  • Topaz

    Episode 12

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1969 • United States
    Starring Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon

    Adapted from the bestselling novel by Leon Uris, Alfred Hitchcock’s taut Cold War thriller centers on a French spy (Frederick Stafford) and a CIA agent (John Forsythe) who join forces in orde...

  • Frenzy

    Episode 13

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1972 • United Kingdom
    Starring Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt

    After more than three decades in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock returned to Britain to make his penultimate film, which finds the master pushing the boundaries of graphic violence to shocking e...

  • The Lady Vanishes

    Episode 14

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1938 • United Kingdom
    Starring Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas

    In Alfred Hitchcock’s most quick-witted and devilish comic thriller, the beautiful Margaret Lockwood, traveling across Europe by train, meets a charming spinster (Dame May Whitty), who t...

  • Downhill

    Episode 15

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1927 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel

    That’s the direction things go for boarding-school student and star rugby player Roddy Berwick (celebrated songwriter and matinee idol Ivor Novello) when he falls from golden boy to public di...

  • The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    Episode 16

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1927 • United Kingdom
    Starring Ivor Novello, June Tripp

    With his third feature film, THE LODGER: A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG, Alfred Hitchcock took a major step toward greatness and made what he would come to consider his true directorial debut. This haunting sile...

  • The Man Who Knew Too Much

    Episode 17

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1934 • United Kingdom
    Starring Peter Lorre, Leslie Banks, Edna Best

    An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassina...

  • The 39 Steps

    Episode 18

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1935 • United Kingdom
    Starring Robert Donat, Madeline Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

    A heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock, THE 39 STEPS follows Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) as he stumbles upon a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish ...

  • Young and Innocent

    Episode 19

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1937 • United Kingdom
    Starring Derrick De Marney, Nova Pilbeam, Percy Marmont

    Alfred Hitchcock’s delightfully entertaining, often overlooked tale of a wrongly accused man follows a young writer (Derrick De Marney) who, when he becomes the prime suspect in the murde...

  • Foreign Correspondent

    Episode 20

    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock • 1940 • United States
    Starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall

    In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock made his official transition from the British film industry to Hollywood. And it was quite a year: his first two American movies, REBECCA and FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, w...