Where was alfred hitchcock (born)

1. One of his first films is lost to history.

Hitchcock and Alma Reville.

Following a six-year stint in the sales and advertising departments of a telegraph company, the 21-year-old Hitchcock made the jump to the movie business in 1921.

He got his first chance to direct a full-length film with 1925’s “The Pleasure Garden,” and then followed up his debut with “The Mountain Eagle,” a silent melodrama set in Kentucky.

Alfred hitchcock movies

All the prints of the “The Mountain Eagle” have since disappeared, and today all that remains of the film is a handful of production photos and a lobby card that was found at a flea market. Hitchcock was reportedly happy that the film was lost—he once called it “a very bad movie”—but it now stands at the top of the British Film Institute’s “Most Wanted” list of lost films.

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His wife was his closest collaborator.

Hitchcock worked with many of the top talents in Hollywood, but his most trusted advisor was almost certainly his wife, Alma Reville. The two married