Alfred Hitchcock was a film director and producer.
Biography[]
In 1968, Hitchcock won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
"The Cuban Connection!" cover pays homage to Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
The cover of The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones issue 20 – "The Cuban Connection!" – is an homage to Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest.[2] Hitchcock's use of a train entering a tunnel as a visual metaphor for sexual intercourse from the end of North by Northwest was adopted for the climax of the Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix comic book mini-series when Indiana Jones and Nadia Kirov begin to get intimate with each other.[3]
Another Hitchcock picture, 1935's The Thirty-Nine Steps, was referenced by name in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.[4] His spy thrillers were also an influence on the story for the "Austria, March 1917" half of Adventures in the Secret Service.[5]
Sources[]
- Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder (Non-fiction source)
