There are few directors more universally acclaimed than Alfred Hitchcock. Maybe Orson Welles didn't like him much, but there were few people Orson Welles didn't dislike, so we'll let that slide. With films like "Psycho,", "Vertigo," and "The Birds," Hitchcock produced countless timeless classics, innovating the medium of film itself.
With all of his successes so well known, some may be surprised to learn of his struggles earlier in his career. During the 1930s, Hitchcock would admit himself that his "reputation wasn't very good" and he endured some pretty severe box office flops. Chief among these was "Rich and Strange," his 1931 film based on a novel by Dale Collins. History has been slightly kinder to it than critics at the time, but that can easily be amounted to bias on the part of modern critics, who watched the film knowing what a legendary auteur Alfred Hitchcock would go on to become.
With all of his successes so well known, some may be surprised to learn of his struggles earlier in his career. During the 1930s, Hitchcock would admit himself that his "reputation wasn't very good" and he endured some pretty severe box office flops. Chief among these was "Rich and Strange," his 1931 film based on a novel by Dale Collins. History has been slightly kinder to it than critics at the time, but that can easily be amounted to bias on the part of modern critics, who watched the film knowing what a legendary auteur Alfred Hitchcock would go on to become.
- 9/7/2022
- by Matt Rainis
- Slash Film
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