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children, cruelty to, 13–17, 20, 25, 105, 141, 161, 227, 279

juxtaposition of familiar with horrible, 49

male destructiveness, 41, 104–8, 186

married life, 165, 211

mistaken identity, 84, 215

objects, supernatural properties of, 283–84, 292

parents, single, 164

pariahdom, 52

power, 46, 104–7, 109

repressed inner child, 20, 21–22, 105, 141

retribution, 20, 289–92

sacred and profane, 284

sadomasochism, submission and domination, 40, 104–9, 284

senses, unreliable nature of, 111–12

sex, and its relationship to murder, 35, 245

sexual transgression, 23, 29–30, 36, 161, 183–84, 227, 247, 284, 288

social relevance, 80, 244–45, 247, 263–64

time, 16

travel, 7

violence, 27–51, 104–9

voyeurism, 29, 181–89, 201

women, see women, in AH’s films

Thinnes, Roy, 209–10

Thirties, The (Gardiner), 272–73

39 Steps, The (film), 45–46, 89, 118, 223, 235

AH’s alleged abuse of Carrol in, 107–8, 221

London’s influence on, 252, 256, 263

themes in, 247, 252, 256, 263

This Week, 158

Thompson, Edith, 34

Thomson, David, 39, 155

Three Hostages, The (Buchan), 178

“300–Pound Prophet Comes to Hollywood” (Johnston), 121

Times (London), 261

To Catch a Thief (film), 54, 72, 97, 102, 155, 185, 211

AH’s visual technique in, 145, 196, 280–81

Kelly in, 90, 127–28

themes in, 155

Todd, Ann, 133

Todd, Richard, 109

Tomasini, George, 226, 240, 247

Tonight Show, The, 99

Topaz (film), 65, 191, 247, 270

Torn Curtain (film), 15, 49–51, 79, 126, 178, 209, 216, 247, 255–56, 292

Transatlantic Pictures, 133, 159

Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) (Parker), 197

Trautonium, 243

Trautwein, Friedrich, 243

Trilby (du Maurier), 94

Tripp, June, 55–56, 254

Trouble with Harry, The (film), 72, 97, 119, 183, 202, 218–20, 280

Trouble with Harry, The (Story), 218

Truffaut, François, 100, 195, 248

interviews with AH, 8, 19–20, 40, 55, 74, 78, 96, 107, 206, 216, 239, 247

Truffaut, Laura, 100

TV Guide, 94

Twentieth Century-Fox, 110, 246, 267

24 Hour Psycho (Gordon), 196

Twickenham Studios, 58

Tyrrell, George, 282

Under Capricorn (film), 30, 109, 159, 171, 175, 193, 213, 235–36, 244, 270

United Nations, 270

Universal Pictures, 55, 65, 103, 143, 192, 194, 230, 246–47, 277

University of Essex, 252

University of London, 253

Valentine, Joseph, 240

Valentine, Val, 169

Valentino, Rudolph, 155

Valli, Alida, 133

Van Sant, Gus, 17, 18

Vatican, 285

Vertigo (film), 2, 63, 65, 78, 91, 145, 179, 198, 235, 239, 252

critical response to, 94–95, 107, 199, 201

male gaze in, 94–95, 107, 109, 182, 184, 187–88

Stewart in, 94, 142, 187–88

themes in, 19, 142, 215

Vice Museum, 40

Victoria, Queen of England, 158

Vidal, Gore, 65

Vietnam War, 39

Village Voice, 226

Violet (Cook), 172, 174

Walker, Michael, 14, 199

Walker, Robert, 37, 155

Walsh, Kay, 271

Waltzes from Vienna (film), 81

Warhol, Andy, xii, 115, 183

Warner, Jack, 244

Warner Bros., 159, 181, 224, 244

Washington Post, 176

Wasserman, Lew, 62, 97–98, 204, 246

Weinstein, Harvey, 102

Welles, Orson, 194, 239, 244

Wells, H. G., 228

Wertham, Frederic, 30, 32

Westminster Cathedral, 278

When Babies Quarrel (film), 13

White, Jerry, 271

White Shadow, The (film), 84–85, 215

Wild Bunch (film), 51

Wilde, Oscar, 37–38, 50, 62, 135–36, 138–39, 156, 280, 292

Wilder, Thornton, 74–76, 75, 77n, 162–63, 277–78

Williams, John, 41

Wills, Colin, 47

Woman Alone, The (film), see Sabotage

Woman to Woman (film), 59, 83, 194

women:

AH’s alleged affairs with, 103, 176

AH’s complex relationship to, 81–109

AH’s controlling and grooming of, 82, 94–104, 141, 146–47, 151, 172, 222–23

on AH’s filmmaking team, 86

as AH’s main audience, 85–86, 87, 91–94

AH’s views on, 89–93, 97, 166, 175, 229

women, in AH’s films:

blonde, 29, 40, 89–90, 95–98, 184, 274

exploitation of, 107–9

feminism, 106–9

good girls/bad girls, 85, 104–7

sexuality of, 21, 23, 85, 87, 95, 105

strength and resilience of, 108–9, 291

untamed, danger to, 84–85, 104–7, 227, 288, 291

Women Who Made the Movies, 180

Wonacott, Edna May, 172

Wood, Robin, 49, 105, 107

Woodcock, Reynolds, 96–97

Woolf, C. M., 57

Woolrich, Cornell, 65, 71

World Health Organization, 270n

World War I, 1, 23–26, 32, 38, 45, 255

World War II, 38, 46, 76, 189–90, 267

Wreck of the Mary Deare, The (Innes), 66

Wreck of the Mary Deare, The (unmade film), 66–67

Wright, Teresa, 107, 161, 162

Writing Screen Plays (Stannard), 69

Wrong Man, The (film), 95, 163, 202, 215, 244, 277, 287–88

W.T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Company, xi, 7, 24, 58, 211, 212, 233

Wyman, Jane, 91

Wyndham, John, 228

York, Duke and Duchess of, 52

Young and Innocent (film), 44–45, 70, 163

Zanuck, Darryl F., 110

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