Alfred Hitchcock's Coming Of Sound Films

Hitchcock had mixed reaction about the addition of sound to motion pictures. He complained that after the coming of sound movies simply became “photographs of people talking” or in Adair’s words “filmed theatre” (40). While it offered innovative creative possibilities of its own something was missing and in Hitchcock’s opinion it was “the art of reproducing life entirely in pictures” (qtd in Adair 40). During the 1930s, Hitchcock established a solid reputation by directing a series of witty well-crafted films like Murder! (1930), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Secret Agent (1936), Sabotage (1936), The Lady Vanishes (1938) for which he became the most recognised of British directors. Most of the films from this period deal directly with