juxtaposition of familiar with horrible, 49
male destructiveness, 41, 104–8, 186
married life, 165, 211
mistaken identity, 84, 215
objects, supernatural properties of, 283–84, 292
parents, single, 164
pariahdom, 52
power, 46, 104–7, 109
repressed inner child, 20, 21–22, 105, 141
retribution, 20, 289–92
sacred and profane, 284
sadomasochism, submission and domination, 40, 104–9, 284
senses, unreliable nature of, 111–12
sex, and its relationship to murder, 35, 245
sexual transgression, 23, 29–30, 36, 161, 183–84, 227, 247, 284, 288
social relevance, 80, 244–45, 247, 263–64
time, 16
travel, 7
violence, 27–51, 104–9
voyeurism, 29, 181–89, 201
women, see women, in AH’s films
Thinnes, Roy, 209–10
Thirties, The (Gardiner), 272–73
39 Steps, The (film), 45–46, 89, 118, 223, 235
AH’s alleged abuse of Carrol in, 107–8, 221
London’s influence on, 252, 256, 263
themes in, 247, 252, 256, 263
This Week, 158
Thompson, Edith, 34
Thomson, David, 39, 155
Three Hostages, The (Buchan), 178
“300–Pound Prophet Comes to Hollywood” (Johnston), 121
Times (London), 261
To Catch a Thief (film), 54, 72, 97, 102, 155, 185, 211
AH’s visual technique in, 145, 196, 280–81
Kelly in, 90, 127–28
themes in, 155
Todd, Ann, 133
Todd, Richard, 109
Tomasini, George, 226, 240, 247
Tonight Show, The, 99
Topaz (film), 65, 191, 247, 270
Torn Curtain (film), 15, 49–51, 79, 126, 178, 209, 216, 247, 255–56, 292
Transatlantic Pictures, 133, 159
Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) (Parker), 197
Trautonium, 243
Trautwein, Friedrich, 243
Trilby (du Maurier), 94
Tripp, June, 55–56, 254
Trouble with Harry, The (film), 72, 97, 119, 183, 202, 218–20, 280
Trouble with Harry, The (Story), 218
Truffaut, François, 100, 195, 248
interviews with AH, 8, 19–20, 40, 55, 74, 78, 96, 107, 206, 216, 239, 247
Truffaut, Laura, 100
TV Guide, 94
Twentieth Century-Fox, 110, 246, 267
24 Hour Psycho (Gordon), 196
Twickenham Studios, 58
Tyrrell, George, 282
Under Capricorn (film), 30, 109, 159, 171, 175, 193, 213, 235–36, 244, 270
United Nations, 270
Universal Pictures, 55, 65, 103, 143, 192, 194, 230, 246–47, 277
University of Essex, 252
University of London, 253
Valentine, Joseph, 240
Valentine, Val, 169
Valentino, Rudolph, 155
Valli, Alida, 133
Van Sant, Gus, 17, 18
Vatican, 285
Vertigo (film), 2, 63, 65, 78, 91, 145, 179, 198, 235, 239, 252
critical response to, 94–95, 107, 199, 201
male gaze in, 94–95, 107, 109, 182, 184, 187–88
Stewart in, 94, 142, 187–88
themes in, 19, 142, 215
Vice Museum, 40
Victoria, Queen of England, 158
Vidal, Gore, 65
Vietnam War, 39
Village Voice, 226
Violet (Cook), 172, 174
Walker, Michael, 14, 199
Walker, Robert, 37, 155
Walsh, Kay, 271
Waltzes from Vienna (film), 81
Warhol, Andy, xii, 115, 183
Warner, Jack, 244
Warner Bros., 159, 181, 224, 244
Washington Post, 176
Wasserman, Lew, 62, 97–98, 204, 246
Weinstein, Harvey, 102
Welles, Orson, 194, 239, 244
Wells, H. G., 228
Wertham, Frederic, 30, 32
Westminster Cathedral, 278
When Babies Quarrel (film), 13
White, Jerry, 271
White Shadow, The (film), 84–85, 215
Wild Bunch (film), 51
Wilde, Oscar, 37–38, 50, 62, 135–36, 138–39, 156, 280, 292
Wilder, Thornton, 74–76, 75, 77n, 162–63, 277–78
Williams, John, 41
Wills, Colin, 47
Woman Alone, The (film), see Sabotage
Woman to Woman (film), 59, 83, 194
women:
AH’s alleged affairs with, 103, 176
AH’s complex relationship to, 81–109
AH’s controlling and grooming of, 82, 94–104, 141, 146–47, 151, 172, 222–23
on AH’s filmmaking team, 86
as AH’s main audience, 85–86, 87, 91–94
AH’s views on, 89–93, 97, 166, 175, 229
women, in AH’s films:
blonde, 29, 40, 89–90, 95–98, 184, 274
exploitation of, 107–9
feminism, 106–9
good girls/bad girls, 85, 104–7
sexuality of, 21, 23, 85, 87, 95, 105
strength and resilience of, 108–9, 291
untamed, danger to, 84–85, 104–7, 227, 288, 291
Women Who Made the Movies, 180
Wonacott, Edna May, 172
Wood, Robin, 49, 105, 107
Woodcock, Reynolds, 96–97
Woolf, C. M., 57
Woolrich, Cornell, 65, 71
World Health Organization, 270n
World War I, 1, 23–26, 32, 38, 45, 255
World War II, 38, 46, 76, 189–90, 267
Wreck of the Mary Deare, The (Innes), 66
Wreck of the Mary Deare, The (unmade film), 66–67
Wright, Teresa, 107, 161, 162
Writing Screen Plays (Stannard), 69
Wrong Man, The (film), 95, 163, 202, 215, 244, 277, 287–88
W.T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Company, xi, 7, 24, 58, 211, 212, 233
Wyman, Jane, 91
Wyndham, John, 228
York, Duke and Duchess of, 52
Young and Innocent (film), 44–45, 70, 163
Zanuck, Darryl F., 110
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