Hitchcock
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- proper noun
- /ˈhɪtʃkɒk/
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Alfred Hitchcock
- Alfred Hitchcock was known for his mastery of suspense in film.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Hitchcock films
- Hitchcock's work
Yeah, there's a great example that was from Hitchcock's movie Marnie.
- Yeah, there's a great example that was from Hitchcock's movie Marnie.
- Name a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
- And I like the people that those people were influenced by Wells and Hitchcock and they of course were influenced by silent film.
- In fact, Alfred Hitchcock was once quoted as saying he was.
- What do Harvey Fierce, Weinstein, Jack Warner, Harry Cone, Alfred Hitchcock Cock and Louis B Mayer have in common?
Examples
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Well, firstly, you can never go wrong with Hitchcock.
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Like the scene in Hitchcock's "The Birds," it is eerily still as everyone freezes.
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It's not a Hitchcock movie, you know.
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Only if this were a Hitchcock movie, something else should be happening about now.
Fiction book (2000) -
Some of the Hitchcock movies scared me half to death, and not in a fun way.
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Hollywood came calling and he worked first for Alfred Hitchcock and then Walt Disney.
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Now this semester we'll be looking exclusively at the works of Alfred Hitchcock.
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I mean to modern readers they I'm sure remind you of that very frightening Hitchcock film, The Birds.
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What's really funny is if you watch old Hitchcock movies, you're like, that's scary.
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Yeah, there's a great example that was from Hitchcock's movie Marnie.
Synonyms
English film director and producer famous for suspenseful movies
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hitchcock is an old English family name made of two common words: hitch meaning 'a small catch' or 'to fasten' and cock meaning 'rooster' or 'young man'. So the director Alfred Hitchcock carries a surname that began as a catchy nickname and later became a family name.