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Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense: The Life of Screenwriter Charles Bennett
328Overview
The fruitful partnership began after Hitchcock adapted Bennett's play Blackmail (1929) as the first British sound film. Their partnership produced six thrillers: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The 39 Steps (1935), Sabotage (1936), Secret Agent (1936), Young and Innocent (1937), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). In this witty and intriguing book, Bennett discusses how their collaboration created such famous motifs as the "wrong man accused" device and the MacGuffin. He also takes readers behind the scenes with the Master of Suspense, offering his thoughts on the director's work, sense of humor, and personal life.
Featuring an introduction and additional biographical material from Bennett's son, editor John Charles Bennett, Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense is a richly detailed narrative of a remarkable yet often-overlooked figure in film history.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813144498 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Kentucky |
Publication date: | 04/29/2014 |
Series: | Screen Classics |
Pages: | 328 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d) |
About the Author
John Charles Bennett teaches science at Saint Margaret's Episcopal School.
Table of Contents
To Charles at Eighty Robert Nathan vii
Preface John Charles Bennett ix
1 Sowing the Wind 1
2 Duty, Honour, Country 11
Excerpt: The Return
3 Shakespearean Actor 19
4 Keith Chesterton: My Most Unforgettable Character 23
Interlude: Magic in Montmartre (1925)
5 Sensation 33
Excerpt: Blackmail (the play)
6 Alfred Hitchcock and My Early Talkies 45
Excerpt: The Secret of the Loch
7 Alfred Hitchcock: A Strange and Bewildering Character 63
Interlude: A Study of the Bennett-Hitchcock Partnership John Chart Bennett
8 Cause for Alarm 83
Interlude: Mr. Shakespeare Comes to Hollywood
9 The British Film Colony and Errol Flynn 99
Interlude: The Spy at Split Rock
10 War in His Pocket 115
Interlude: Hitler Is Dead
11 A Secret Agent 131
Interlude: A Suave Villain
12 Unto the Breach 153
Interlude: The Problem of the Purloined Portable
13 A Foreign Correspondent 167
14 Unconquered 177
15 No Escape 185
Excerpt: Bewitched
16 Curtain Call 203
17 Where Danger Lives John Charles Bennett 209
18 The Avenger John Charles Bennett 223
Excerpt: Blow, Bugle, Blow
A Tribute 241
The Works of Charles Bennett 243
Charles Bennett's Awards and Distinctions 253
Notes 257
Suggestions for Further Research 261
Index 267