Hitchcock Pilfers a Plot

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Hitchcock took the ideas for many of his movies from novels and plays. This is a list of each of those movies, followed by the work it was based on.

In an interview, Hitchcock said he would usually read the book once and never consult it again while making the movie – which is probably why some of these films are extremely loosely based on the original.

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    The Pleasure Garden
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    The Pleasure Garden
    by Oliver Sandys

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    The Lodger
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    The Lodger
    by Marie Belloc Lowndes

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    Downhill
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Down Hill (Play)
    by David L'Estrange

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    Easy Virtue

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    Easy Virtue, A Play in Three Acts
    by Noel Coward

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    The Farmer's Wife
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    The Farmer's Wife a Comedy in Three Acts
    by Eden Phillpotts

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    Champagne
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Champagne
    by Walter C. Mycroft

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    The Manxman
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    The Manxman
    by Hall Caine

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    Blackmail

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    Blackmail (Play)
    by Charles Bennett

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    Juno and the Paycock
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Juno and the Paycock
    by Sean O'Casey

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    Murder!
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Enter Sir John
    by Clemence & Simpson, Helen Dane

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    The Skin Game
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    The Skin Game
    by John Galsworthy

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    Number Seventeen
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Number Seventeen (Play)
    by J. Jefferson Fargeon

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    The 39 Steps

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    The 39 Steps
    by JOHN BUCHAN

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    Secret Agent
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Ashenden Or: The British Agent
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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    Sabotage

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    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    Young and Innocent

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    A Shilling for Candles: An Inspector Alan Grant Mystery
    by Josephine Tey

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    The Lady Vanishes

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    The Wheel Spins
    by Ethel Lina White

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    Jamaica Inn
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Jamaica Inn
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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    Rebecca

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    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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    Foreign Correspondent

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    Personal History
    by Vincent Sheean

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    Suspicion

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    Before the Fact (Pan Classic Crime)
    by Francis Iles

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    Lifeboat (Special Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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    Lifeboat (novella)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Spellbound

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    The Paradine Case

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    The Paradine Case
    by Robert Hichens

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    Rope

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    Rope: A Play (Drama)
    by Patrick Hamilton

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Created by The Subjected Reader on Jan 18, 2007.
 

Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

Cute idea!