Hitchcock’s British Films

Acknowledgments to the First Edition

Acknowledgments to the First Edition I wish to thank the Canada Council and Brock University for the sabbatical and research grants that enabled me to write this book. Special thanks are due to Barbara Humphreys and the staff at the Motion Picture Section of the Library of Congress, Jeremy Boulton and the staff at the National Film Archive in London, and Serge Losique at the Conservatoire d’Art Cinematographique in Montreal for their generous help. I am indebted to Ms. Jenny Gursky and her staff for their quick and reliable stenographic assistance. Stills from the following films are reproduced by courtesy of the Rank Organization: The Pleasure Garden, Downhill, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, Sabotage, Young and Innocent, and The Lady Vanishes. Stills from the following films are reproduced courtesy of EMI Film Distributors: The Farmer’s Wife, The Manxman, Blackmail, Murder!, Rich and Strange, and Number Seventeen. ...