Today we have with us, Kim Humphries Putland who has written a remarkable treatise on Alfred Hitchcock’s spy and espionage genre movies. She uses a historical perspective to look at Hitchcock spy movies. And integrating the current world events into the treatment and unfolding stories in these special movies – history affects the Hitchcock spy movies!

You can find Kim’s thesis here. She also has a podcast called: As Told By Hollywood.

The Hitchcock Spy Movies from a historical perspective

In this episode, we discuss how Hitchcock used current events and wove them into each of his spy movies which are:

THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (both the 1934 and 1956 versions)
THE 39 STEPS
SECRET AGENT
SABOTAGE
THE LADY VANISHES
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
SABATEUR
NOTORIOUS
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
TORN CURTAIN
TOPAZ

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