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During his childhood, the director was shocked by an episode which deeply influenced his life and work. He was sent by his father to the local police station carrying a letter. After the officer read it, he locked young Alfred in jail for about ten minutes. Then he let him come back home explaining that this was what happened to people who did bad acts.
From that day on Hitchcock was always frightened by policemen.
We often meet in his cinema, innocents who are arrested and police who are often unable to solve the plots.

Hitchcock never won an Oscar as best director. He was awarded only with the "Irving Thalberg Memorial Award" in 1967.

The "master of suspense" was married to Alma Reville who often worked with her husband as a writer or an assistant director.
Their daughter, Patricia, appears in some of her father's movies as in "Stage fright","Strangers On A Train" and "Psycho".

Hitchcock, himself, appears in many movies; his cameos soon become a sort of superstitious act. Often they are funny little gags.

There are some recursing devices in Hitchcock's movies. We can find, for example, director's shots on woman's hairstyles, or again lots of "action" is set in bathrooms, as Marion Crane's murder in "Psycho" or Harry's body hiding in "The trouble with Harry".

During the last years of his life, Hitchcock was working on a new movie, "The Short Night". The screenplay was published by its author, David Freeman, after the director's death.