

He meticulously planned each film and knew exactly the effect each detail would have on his audiences. The famed, late English film director Alfred Hitchcock was a complicated, twisted and mischievous man - characteristics that show up in all his great movies. Editor’s note: The following article, like many of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, includes references to sex and violence.ĭid Martin Landau play a homosexual in North by Northwest? Did Alfred Hitchcock really show gay sex on-screen in Rope, albeit in an unusual way? Was the whole plot of Rebecca driven by the twisted jealousy of an evil lesbian? And, most surprisingly, did Hitchcock depict a gay marriage way back in 1938’s The Lady Vanishes?
