Just as an off the cuff, here are my one hundred and seventeen reasons to celebrate Alfred Hitchcock on this day:

1. his countless contributions toward creating the language of film.
2. the MacGuffin (that plot device which has little significance to the audience, but which appears to motivate the characters)
3. the double-chase (the protagonist wanted by the authorities, but also being pursued by the villain)
4. the shower scene in Psycho
5. the crop duster scene in North by Northwest
6. the Statue of Liberty scene in Saboteur
7. Grace Kelly
8. Bernard Herrmann’s score for Vertigo
9. San Francisco never looked better than it does in Vertigo
10. Uncle Charlie
11. Bruno’s strangulation of Miriam reflected in her fallen eyeglasses in Strangers on a Train
12. the moment Thorwald looks directly at Jefferies (and us) in Rear Window
13. that he managed to make Cary Grant a murderer in Suspicion despite studio and censorship pressure
14. the location photography in I Confess
15. great last lines, To Catch a Thief: “So this is where you live. Mother will love it here.”
16. the runaway car scene in Family Plot
17. his suspense over shock credo
18. the false flashback in Stage Fright 
19. Jefferies fending off Thorwald with flashbulbs in Rear Window
20. Melanie Daniels (Tippi) slapping the hysterical mother in The Birds
21. the drunk prophesying “the end of the world” in The Birds
22. Stella McCaffery (Thelma Ritter) in Rear Window (with much assistance from John Michael Hayes’s dialogue)
23. that he kept Joseph Stefano around after he suggested starting Psycho with Marion and killing her off a third of the way in
24. the auction scene in North by Northwest (with much assistance from Ernest Lehman’s dialogue)
25. shooting through a glass ceiling to reveal Mrs. Bunting’s agitated lodger in The Lodger
26. the theremin in Spellbound
27. directing James Stewart in four memorable roles
28. the long takes in Rope
29. his long collaboration with cinematographer Robert Burks
30. the confined space of Lifeboat 
31. Rusk and Babs on the potato truck in Frenzy
32. the crane shot in Young and Innocent
33. his persistent use of point-of-view editing
34. the emerald ring in Shadow of a Doubt
35. turning in a respectable screwball comedy with Mr. and Mrs. Smith
36. Gromek’s killing in Torn Curtain
37. Jefferies watching Miss Lonelyhearts preparing dinner for an imaginary lover in Rear Window
38. fireworks, literal and otherwise, in To Catch a Thief
39. any of Hitchcock’s cameos
40. Louis Bernard’s facepaint smearing on Ben’s hands in the marketplace scene in The Man Who Knew Too Much
41. Bernard Herrmann’s score for North by Northwest
42. keeping the camera in the alley outside the Blaney Matrimonial Agency for the discovery of Brenda Blaney’s body in Frenzy
43. the moment Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette) turns her head away from the camera when Melanie (talking to Mitch on the phone) decides she will stay for Cathy’s birthday party in The Birds
44. the silence as we wait for Marnie’s shoe to drop as she tiptoes past the cleaning lady in Marnie
45. his preference for conveying the story through visual means rather than through dialogue
46. the way Hitchcock makes us completely abandon our allegiance to Marion when we are relieved that her car (and corpse) sinks into the swamp behind the Bates Motel in Psycho 
47. Lila Crane discovering Mrs. Bates in the fruit cellar
48. the way Hitchcock makes us root for Bruno to retrieve the dropped cigarette lighter from the sewer drain which he intends to use to frame Guy in Strangers on a Train
49. the depleting champagne bottles in Notorious
50. Jo’s friends being left behind and in the dark in The Man Who Knew Too Much
51. Edith Head’s costume designs
52. all those pairs and references to “two” in Shadow of a Doubt
53. all those references to pairs in Strangers on a Train
54. the “knife” scene in Blackmail
55. Charles Laughton in Jamaica Inn 
56. directing Cary Grant in four memorable roles
57. Nova Pilbeam
58. great last lines, Frenzy: “Mr. Rusk, you’re not wearing your tie.”
59. Richard Hannay discovering the Professor’s missing finger in The 39 Steps

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60. the bullet stopped by the Bible in The 39 Steps
61. the milkman helping Hannay escape in The 39 steps
62. Mr. Memory
63. Ernie’s restaurant
64. Patricia Hitchcock as Barbara Morton in Strangers on a Train
65. Pretty nearly every filmmaker who has copied Hitchcock since
66. the bomb explosion on the bus in Sabotage
67. the Albert Hall sequence in both versions of The Man Who Knew Too Much
68. when Fred Hill gets hit in the eye his first time on the ship’s deck in Rich and Strange
69. Mrs. Danvers showing Rebecca’s negligee to the second Mrs. DeWinter in Rebecca 
70. the bird attack on Melanie in the attic
71. Hank whistling “Whatever Will Be” so his parents can find him in The Man Who Knew Too Much
72. William Devane in Family Plot
73. a bomb in a birdcage in Sabotage
74. Mrs. Verloc thinking she sees her dead brother Stevie multiple times in Sabotage
75. Hitchcock’s opening prologue to The Wrong Man
76. Saul Bass’s title designs for Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho
77. the dolly-zoom shot in Vertigo
78. the Mount Rushmore scene in North by Northwest
79. Claude Rains in Notorious 
80. those many long, wordless sequences
81. the flashback/letter-writing scene in Vertigo
82. his ability to transform innocent objects into something menacing—e.g. the blood-stained doll in Stage Fright
83. the drummer’s twitching eyes in Young and Innocent
84. the red gunshot flash in Spellbound
85. the umbrella scene in Foreign Correspondent
86. the glass of milk in Suspicion
87. Bernard Herrmann’s score for Psycho
88. the high angle shot of “Mrs. Bates” attacking Arbogast atop the stairs in Psycho
89. the use of mirrors in Vertigo
90. Caldicott and Charters
91. Ingrid Bergman
92. his decisions on when to move the camera
93. the auction scene in The Skin Game
94. the Crofter and his wife in The 39 Steps
95. the sideshow freaks in Saboteur
96. Bernard Herrmann’s appearance in The Man Who Knew Too Much
97. Leo G. Carroll
98. John Williams (the actor, not the composer)
99. his speech at the AFI tribute thanking Alma
100. that he tossed aside making The Wreck of the Mary Deare in favor of what became North by Northwest
101. that he tossed aside Flamingo Feather in favor of what became Vertigo
102. The Trouble with Harry
103. the food motif in Frenzy
104. great last lines, Psycho: “I’m not even going to swat that fly. I hope they are watching… they’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know, and they’ll say, ‘Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly.'”
105. Lisa Carol Fremont’s entrance in Rear Window
106. Francie Stevens’s clothes in To Catch a Thief
107. Jennifer Rogers’s “short fuse”
108. Bernard Herrmann’s score for Marnie
109. a sedated Jo’s reaction to learning Hank has been kidnapped
110. casting Kim Novak in Vertigo when Vera Miles backed out
111. his self-designed caricature
112. his prologues and epilogues to Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
113. his respect for the audience
114. his restrained and intelligent use of 3D in Dial M for Murder
115. the jungle gym scene in The Birds
116. the interrogation scene in The Wrong Man
117. the wine cellar scene in Notorious

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