EXAM REVIEW FILM

Multiple Choice and Fill in the Blank

Alfred Hitchcock

Alma Reville (wife)

Patricia Hitchcock (daughter)

*** REVIEW QUIZZES ***

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

• Settings

  • London, England (inspired by Jack the Ripper)

  • Lodging home of the Bunting’s

• Screenwriters/important people in making

  • based on the 1913 novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes

  • Screenplay by Eliot Stannard

  • Produced by: Michael Balcon; Carlyle Blackwell; C. M. Woolf

• Characters and actors

  • Daisy Bunting (a mannequin): June Tripp

  • The Lodger/Jonathan Drew: Ivor Novello

  • Joe Chandler (a police detective): Malcolm Keen

  • The Landlady/Mrs. Bunting: Marie Ault

  • Landlady Husband/Mr. Bunting: Arthur Chesney

• Important dialogue: TOOK UP TOO MUCH SPACE SO I LINKED IT

The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock, 1935)

• Settings

  • London, England

    • Music Theatre Hall

    • London Palladium, last hall scene

  • Scotland/Scottish Highlands, UK

    • Waverley Station in Edinburgh, where Hannay learns he is being chased

    • Train stops at Forth Bridge

    • Alt-na-Shellach in Killin, Professor Jordan’s home

    • Inverary, where the police intend to take Hannay and Pamela

• Screenwriters/important people in making

  • Screenplay by: Charles Bennett; Ian Hay

  • Based on The Thirty-Nine Steps, a 1915 novel by John Buchan

  • Produced by Michael Balcon

• Characters and actors

  • Richard Hannay (Canadian): Robert Donat

  • Pamela: Madeleine Carroll

  • Annabella Smith: Lucie Mannheim

  • Mr. Memory: Wylie Watson

  • Professor Jordan: Godfrey Tearle

  • Crofter’s Wife/Margaret: Peggy Ashcroft

  • Crofter: John Laurie

  • The Sheriff: Frank Cellier

• Important dialogue

Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940)

• Settings

  • Do we have to know where Max misidentified Rebecca??? That’s just his house??

  • French Riviera, cliffs in France

  • Monte Carlo hotel, Monaco

  • Manderley in Cornwall, South West England

• Screenwriters/important people in making

  • Screenplay by: Robert E. Sherwood; Joan Harrison

  • Adaptation by: Philip MacDonald; Michael Hogan

  • Based on Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

  • Produced by: David O. Selznick

• Characters and actors

  • Maxim de Winter: Laurence Olivier

  • Mrs. de Winter: Joan Fontaine

  • Mrs. Danvers: Judith Anderson

  • Jack Favell, “Rebecca’s Favorite Cousin”: George Sanders

  • Mrs. Van Hopper: Florence Bates

  • Beatrice Lacy/Max’s sister: Gladys Cooper

  • Major Giles Lacy: Nigel Bruce

  • Dr. Baker: Leo G. Carroll

  • Ben: Leonard Carey

• Important dialogue

Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943) 

• Settings

  • Newark, New Jersey (Uncle Charlie hotel)

  • Santa Rosa, California (Newton home)

  • Connecticut (Other suspect is caught here)

  • Uncle Charlie leaves for San Francisco at end of movie

• Screenwriters/important people in making

  • Screenplay by: Thornton Wilder; Sally Benson; Alma Reville

  • Story by: Gordon McDonell

  • Produced by: Jack H. Skirball

• Characters and actors

  • Charlie Newton: Teresa Wright

  • Charlie Oakley: Joseph Cotten

  • Jack Graham: Macdonald Carey

  • Fred Saunders: Wallace Ford

  • Joseph Newton/father: Henry Travers

  • Emma Newton/mother: Patricia Collinge

  • Ann Newton: Edna May Wonacott

  • Roger Newton: Charles Bates

  • Herbie Hawkins: Hume Cronyn

• Important dialogue

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

• Settings

  • Florida, US

  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Screenwriters/important people in making

  • Written by: Ben Hecht

• Characters and actors

  • T.R. Devlin: Cary Grant

  • Alicia Huberman: Ingrid Bergman

  • Alexander Sebastian: Claude Rains

  • Paul Prescott: Louis Calhern

  • Mme. Sebastian: Leopoldine Konstantin

  • Dr. Anderson: Reinhold Schunzel

  • Eric Mathis (says last line to Alex): Ivan Triesault

  • Emil Hupka: E.A. Krumschmidt

• Important dialogue

Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951)

• Settings

  • Train from NY to Washington DC

  • Bruno is from Arlington

  • Metcalf, Washington is Miriam’s workplace and Guy’s hometown

  • Magic Isle, (Pleasure Island)  where Miriam is strangled

  • Forest Hills in Queens, tennis match

• Screenwriters/important people in making

  • Raymond Chandler, screenwriter

  • Adaptation by: Whitfield Cook

  • Based on 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith

• Characters and actors

  • Guy Haines: Farley Granger

  • Anne Morton: Ruth Roman

  • Bruno Antony: Robert Walker

  • Senator Morton: Leo G. Carroll

  • Barbara Morton: Patricia Hitchcock

  • Miriam Joyce Haines: Kasey Rogers

  • Mrs. Antony: Marion Lorne

  • Mr. Antony: Jonathan Hale

  • Professor Collins: John Brown

  • Mrs. Cunningham: Norma Varden

• Important dialogue