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Hitchcock Pilfers a Plot

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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1.
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 The Pleasure Garden
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
2.
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 The Pleasure Garden
by Oliver Sandys
  
3.
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 The Lodger
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
4. The Lodger
by Marie Belloc Lowndes
  
5.
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 Downhill
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
6.
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 Down Hill (Play)
by David L'Estrange
  
7. Easy Virtue  
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 Easy Virtue, A Play in Three Acts
by Noel Coward
  
9. The Farmer's Wife
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
10. The Farmer's Wife a Comedy in Three Acts
by Eden Phillpotts
  
11.
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 Champagne
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
12.
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 Champagne
by Walter C. Mycroft
  
13. The Manxman
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
14. The Manxman
by Hall Caine
  
15. Blackmail  
16.
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 Blackmail (Play)
by Charles Bennett
  
17.
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 Juno and the Paycock
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
18.
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 Juno and the Paycock
by Sean O'Casey
  
19.
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 Murder!
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
20.
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 Enter Sir John
by Clemence & Simpson, Helen Dane
  
21. The Skin Game
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
22. The Skin Game
by John Galsworthy
  
23.
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 Number Seventeen
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
24.
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 Number Seventeen (Play)
by J. Jefferson Fargeon
  
25. The 39 Steps  
26. The 39 Steps
by JOHN BUCHAN
  
27. Secret Agent
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
28. Ashenden Or: The British Agent
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
29. Sabotage  
30. The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
31. Young and Innocent  
32. A Shilling for Candles: An Inspector Alan Grant Mystery
by Josephine Tey
  
33. The Lady Vanishes  
34.
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 The Wheel Spins
by Ethel Lina White
  
35. Jamaica Inn
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
36. Jamaica Inn
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
37. Rebecca  
38. Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
39. Foreign Correspondent  
40.
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 Personal History
by Vincent Sheean
  
41. Suspicion  
42. Before the Fact (Pan Classic Crime)
by Francis Iles
  
43. Lifeboat (Special Edition)
by Alfred Hitchcock
  
44.
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 Lifeboat (novella)
by John Steinbeck
  
45. Spellbound  
46.
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 Spellbound Originally Published As "The House of Dr. Edwardes"
by Francis Beeding
  
47. The Paradine Case  
48.
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 The Paradine Case
by Robert Hichens
  
49. Rope  
50. Rope: A Play (Drama)
by Patrick Hamilton
  
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Created by The Subjected Reader on Jan 18, 2007.