This Month's Showcase

Alfred Hitchcock – The Master of Suspense

For our current Alfred Hitchcock showcase, we are delighted to offer a superb one owner collection of nearly 100 original cinema posters from his films.  Some of these are very rare, some are very valuable but they’re all a fascinating part of the Hitchcock legacy.

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE was a British film director and producer, often referred to as "The Master of Suspense" due to his mastery of the suspense thriller genre.

In a career spanning six decades he directed over fifty feature films starting in the British film industry in the 1920s as a title designer before progressing to become a director. He directed 23 films during the first phase of his career in England, including Blackmail (1929), one of the early British sound films. By the late 1930s, his profile was rising internationally, and he moved to Hollywood in 1939 before embarking on the most successful phase of his career, directing films including Psycho, The Birds, North By Northwest, Rear Window, Vertigo and To Catch a Thief.  There were many more and he left behind an extraordinary legacy that few other directors can even approach.

Hitchcock is seen today as a director who managed to combine art and entertainment in a way very few have ever matched. His innovations and vision have influenced a great number of filmmakers, producers and actors. He remains by far the most-studied film director of all time.

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