An interview with Hitchcock reproduced from the television series Telescope in which he discusses some techniques of storytelling in film such as juxtaposition of images in various sizes, orchestration of sounds, and cinematic effects used to create shock. The interview includes discussion of playwrights and actors, his experiences as host and impresario of a long-running TV show, and his opinions on the social impact of film. Film clips from several...

The story of an Englishman touring Morocco with his wife and child who accidentally becomes involved in an anarchist plot to assassinate a foreign diplomat in London.

A documentary/fiction hybrid that combines archival footage with cryptic allusions to an imaginary murder plot involving Alfred Hitchcock and his double to create a portrait of American media run amok during the Cold War.

Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache are taut, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder, made in 1944 to aid the war effort. But when British government officials saw the films, directed by cinema genius Alfred Hitchcock. They labeled them "inflammatory," shelved them and tried to forget they were ever made.

In this film by Alfred Hitchcock, an actress in a touring company is discovered near the scene of the crime when a woman is found murdered. She is charged with murder, placed on trial and convicted on circumstantial evidence. One of the jury, however, Sir John Menier, believes in her innocence and sets out to prove it. His personal investigations take him to the touring company where he questions members of the cast and crew. He learns that a man's...

An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.

[Rich and strange] Inheriting money, a young couple sets off to travel around the world. The husband has an affair with "a princess", while the wife becomes romantically attached to an explorer. [Sorcerer's apprentice] An innocent boy becomes the pawn in a deadly circus game gone awry. (This special episode from the last season of the TV production of Alfred Hitchcock presents was not shown as part of the original network run).

Humans must flee for their lives as birds try to stage a bloody attack on the civilized world.

A jealous husband plots to murder his unfaithful wife by hiring a killer to attack her, but the plan goes awry when she kills her assailant.