Celluloid Visions: The World of Alfred Hitchcock

a kaleidoscope of horror, humour and glamour

IN 1973 Orson Welles¹ directed an amusing film called F for Fake, an exploration of the realm of hoaxes and forgery. During the film Welles plays a little trick on the audience which is not revealed until the end. I’m not really sure why this came to mind as I started to write this appreciation of the work of Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980). Maybe it’s beca…