Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was a British director and producer, who fittled with many relatively new techniques for his time in the suspense and thriller genres. Through out his six decade career Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films ranging from the silent era, to talkies, to the color era. People begin placing him in the auteur category because all of his films were shot and acted out practelly the same.

Hitchcock became famous for is expert and largely unrivaled control of pace and suspense through out his movies; how his movies draw on both fear and fanesty; and the cynical view of tradional romance the most of his films took on. Many of his early movies created the techniques that he would end up using through out his film career. Blackmail was his tenth movie and introduced the tradition of using famous landmarks as a backdrop for suspense sequences. The 39 Steps(1935) brought about the ‘MacGuffin” concept, a plot device around which a whole story would revolve in. Those are just a couple of examples that I have picked up on in the Hitchcock movies that I have watched. Many other directors have been placed in this category too, like Sara Allgood, Cary Grant, Vera Miles, and Annie Ondra.