Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I The Code and the Censors
1 Origins of the Code 9
2 Censors at Work 24
Part II The British Years (1922-1939)
3 The British Board of Film Censors 35
4 The British Gaumont Thrillers 42
Part III The Selznick Years (1940-1947)
5 Hitchcock and Selznick 59
6 Rebecca (1940) 64
7 Foreign Correspondent (1940) 71
8 Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) 81
9 Suspicion (1941) 85
10 Saboteur (1942) 91
11 Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 98
12 Lifeboat (1944) 102
13 Spellbound (1945) 110
14 Notorious (1946) 118
15 The Paradine Case (1947) 129
Part IV The Transatlantic Years (1948-1949)
16 Hitchcock and Transatlantic 139
17 Rope (1948) 141
18 Under Capricorn (1949) 149
Part V The Warner's Years (1950-1954)
19 Hitchcock and Warner Bros. 157
20 Stage Fright (1950) 160
21 Strangers on a Train (1951) 167
22 I Confess (1953) 176
23 Dial M for Murder (1954) 184
Part VI The Glory Years (1954-1968)
24 Hitchcock in Ascendance 191
25 Rear Window (1954) 194
26 To Catch a Thief (1955) 200
27 The Trouble with Harry (1955) 206
28 The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 210
29 The Wrong Man (1956) 215
30 Vertigo (1958) 219
31 North by Northwest (1959) 227
32 Psycho (1960) 235
33 The Birds (1963) 244
34 Mamie (1964) 254
35 Torn Curtain (1966) 264
Part VII The Television Years (1955-1965)
36 Television Censorship 273
37 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 281
Part VIII The Post-Code Years (1968-1980)
38 The Decline of the Code 291
39 The Rise of the Rating System 295
40 Topaz (1969) 298
41 Frenzy (1972) 303
42 Family Plot (1976) 309
Conclusion 312
Acknowledgments 322
Appendix: List of Pre-Code "Don'ts" and "Be Carefuls" 323
Notes 325
Selected Bibliography 353
Index 357