The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: New biography reveals the many faces of cinema’s greatest auteur of the thriller
A strict upbringing and deep-seated insecurity are credited with making Alfred Hitchcock into cinema’s master of the thriller in this enjoyable biography
BIOGRAPHY
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
By Edward White
WW Norton, €26.50
Alfred Hitchcock and Sean O’Casey had a complex relationship. The British film director greatly admired the Irish playwright’s work Juno and the Paycock and made a big-screen version in 1930.
Neither man was happy with the result, however, and a meeting over dinner about another possible collaboration came to nothing. More than 30 years later, ...