Alfred Hitchcock

So many words have been used to describe the cinematic Master of Suspense that it dazzles the imagination. So many words, so many descriptions, so many of them at odds with one another. Where does one begin to peel the many layers of Alfred Hitchcock, who at one time ranked as one of the world's most recognizable people? Indeed, this upbringing was to play a decisive thematic role in his films, namely, that of the outsider that no one truly understands (PSYCHO, I CONFESS et al). Catholics were not a very popular group of people in England at the turn of the century.