The Adventures Of Alfred Hitchcock: Chapter 5

The Secret History Of Hollywood

Adam Roche

Film History, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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In the 1920s,Alfred Hitchcock, the son of a shopkeeper, embarked on a career in the fledgling movie industry, and things were never the same again. From silence to sound, from monochrome to colour, from cinema to television, no other film director would stake such a large claim to entertainment in the twentieth century. In this special series of episodes, hear all about Hitchcock's beginnings, his triumphs and failures, the battles that raged behind the scenes, the people that helped him become the most iconic director of all time, and the darkness inside him that emerged from time-to- time, to cause damage to himself and to those closest to him.... To become a patron of the show, and to unlock every single story, sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	On May 7th, the day that Saboteur premiered at Radio City Music Hall, Hitchcock officially announced that his next project
0:55.0	would be based on a story by Gordon Macdonnell, entitled Uncle Charlie.
1:00.0	Selznick wasn't interested, and at once farmed Hitchcock out to Universal again, who agreed
1:05.0	to pay Selznick $150,000 for Hitchcock services, only a third of which would go to Hitchcock.
1:11.6	Selznick clapped his hands together in glee and sold his star director readily.
1:20.6	The thing that most appealed to Hitchcock about the story was the stark juxtaposition of sinister homicidal maniac alongside the trivialities of small-town life.
1:34.3	The story revolves around Charlie Newton, a bored teenage girl living with her family in the sleepy town of Santa Rosa.
1:43.3	The family receive a sudden town of Santa Rosa.
1:45.0	The family receive a sudden jolt of energy when a telegram arrived, announcing that
1:50.0	their Uncle Charlie is coming to visit.
1:52.0	Oh, Charlie, I just called up your house.
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