by Steven DeRosa | Jan 12, 2011 | Blog Post
In case you missed last Saturday’s BBC 4 broadcast of To Catch a Thief(which will be online until 1/15/2011), here’s my brief review. Naturally, as I cover the writing and production of To Catch a Thief in great detail in Writing with Hitchcock (in...
by Steven DeRosa | Nov 25, 2010 | Blog Post
In celebration of Thanksgiving, I thought I’d leave you with a radio play co-scripted by screenwriter John Michael Hayes (Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, Trouble with Harry, and The Man Who Knew Too Much). It’s an episode of The Adventures of Sam Spade...
by Steven DeRosa | Nov 10, 2010 | Blog Post
In mid-1955 while in production on the re-make of The Man Who Knew Too Much for Paramount Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock began planning a film that would be a dramatic departure from the up-beat Technicolor productions he made since leaving Warner Brothers two years...
by Steven DeRosa | Sep 9, 2010 | Blog Post
It was 45 years ago today—September 9, 1965—that Peggy Robertson, Alfred Hitchcock’s longtime personal assistant, did what might have been considered the unthinkable by her employer. After consulting with Lew Wasserman and trusted agent Ned Brown, Robertson included...
by Steven DeRosa | Jul 30, 2010 | Blog Post
What is the trouble with The Trouble with Harry? Why does it remain among the least analyzed of Hitchcock’s 1950s films (probably beating out only Dial M for Murder and Stage Fright)? To date, few have seen fit to rank The Trouble with Harry as a key work in the...
