The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock

This is the definitive life story of Alfred Hitchcock, the enigmatic and intensely private director of Psycho, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Birds , and more than forty other films. While setting forth ev…

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