Alfred Hitchcock was a film director and producer.
Biography[]
In 1968, Alfred 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 "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 miniseries when Indiana Jones and Nadia Kirov begin to get intimate with each other.[3]
Tom Stoppard's shooting script for Kazim's death scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade consisted on a recreation of Louis Bernard's death in Hitchcock's 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much. However, despite the scene being filmed as originally planned, director Steven Spielberg didn't feel it achieved the impact he wanted for the shot so he dropped it.[4] Kazim's onscreen death was ultimately absolutely different from this, with him being mortally wounded by Nazi fire and approached by Walter Donovan and Elsa Schneider to warn them about their impending fates before expiring.[5]
Hitchcock's 1935 film The Thirty-Nine Steps was referenced by name in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.[6] His spy thrillers were also an influence on the story for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "Austria, March 1917" half of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones feature film Adventures in the Secret Service.[7]
Toby Jones, who portrayed Basil Shaw in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, played Alfred Hitchcock in Julian Jarrold's 2012 television film The Girl.
Sources[]
- Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder (Non-fiction source)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ Irving Thalberg - Hollywood's Boy Wonder
- ↑
The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones – "The Cuban Connection!"
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Deleted Scenes at TheRaider.net
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- ↑ Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- ↑ The Complete Adventures of Indiana Jones – Adventures in the Secret Service introduction
