Tag Archives: Alfred Hitchcock

Tuesday Night Bloggers: Romance on the Big Screen

Posted on February 14, 2017 by

This month the Tuesday Night Bloggers are exploring love and its variation, as well as its consequences in crime fiction. Last week I delved into mostly golden age detective fiction to examine what suspects and criminals do in the name … Continue reading →

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Saboteurs in a variety of guises in Hitchcock’s Sabotage (1936)

Posted on March 13, 2016 by

In a very loose way this film is based on Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (1907) and the novel is unsurprisingly much stronger than the film. Conrad’s novel is one I particularly enjoyed studying at university as although from the … Continue reading →

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A Poor Outing in Hitchcock’s Suspicion (1941)

Posted on December 5, 2015 by

Having read Francis’ Iles brilliant book, Before the Fact (1932), I was interested to see how Hitchcock adapted it and conveniently it was released in this month’s chosen year for Past Offences Monthly Challenge, 1941. ‘Some women give birth to … Continue reading →

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Espionage Amateur Hour in Hitchcock’s Secret Agent (1936)

Posted on September 1, 2015 by

First things first, Hitchcock’s Secret Agent (1936) is not an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s novel The Secret Agent (1907), a misconception I initially had, but is actually based on W. Somerset Maugham’s novel Ashenden (1928). I think Hitchcock did go … Continue reading →

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