Today's Quiz - Hitchcock! - Trailers From Hell

Hitchcock relied on the Walt Disney Studios for this when producing 1963’s The Birds.

The bird attacks
The matte paintings for the Bodego Bay locations
Sound effects for the movie’s unusual soundtrack.

Character actor John McIntire plays the sheriff in Psycho. His real-life wife, Jeanette Nolan, also lent her talents to the film. What did she do?

Played the voice of Norman’s mother
Played Norman’s knife-wielding mother in the shower scene
She can be seen in the bedroom window as the silhouette of Norman’s mother.

Shakespeare helped provide the title for this classic Hitchcock thriller.

North by Northwest
Under Capricorn
Shadow of a Doubt

1945’s Spellbound featured a dream sequence designed by this great surrealist artist.

Salvador Dalí
Rene Magritte
Marcel Duchamp

Composer Bernard Herrmann, long time Hitchcock collaborator, plays himself in this thriller.

The Man Who Knew Too Much
Stage Fright
The Trouble with Harry

Alfred Hitchcock made cameos in 39 of his 52 films but his appearance in 1949’s Lifeboat which was set in the middle of the Atlantic ocean may have been the most creative. What was it?

He appears in a newspaper advertisement.
He appears as a body floating past the lifeboat.
His picture appears in the wallet of one of the castaways.

In this classic suspense thriller, Hitchcock took the unusual approach of directing some of the actors via a short wave radio that broadcast his words to their flesh-colored earpieces.