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Introduction

In many of Hitchcock's films, the director himself makes a cameo appearance, but can you tell Murder! from Blackmail or Frenzy from Vertigo? Some of his appearances are well known, others less so. From which Hitchcock films are the following taken?

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1

In this early cameo he is bothered by a boy in the London underground. He made two versions of this film - what is it?

 

 

2

The lead actor looks over his shoulder as Hitch reads a newspaper in which wartime film?

 

 

3

Hitchcock is the unlikely owner of two Sealyham Terriers in this film adaption of a famous short story transplanted from Cornwall to California. It is...?

 

 

4

Hitchcock sometimes carried a musical instrument in his cameos and is seen here with a cello. Gregory Peck plays an infatuated lawyer. What's the film?

 

 

5

Hitchcock donned a cowboy hat in this film to which no latecomers were admitted into the cinema. What is it?

 

 

6

Cary Grant studiously ignores the director in which film set on the French Riviera?

 

 

7

Here's Hitchcock at a desk in a newsroom in the first of his cameo appearances. What's the film?

 

 

8

Another instrument, this time a double bass. The film is...?

 

 

9

Seen in the crowd with the Thames in the background of his penultimate film, which was?

 

 

10

An early sound film and Hitchcock's only 'whodunit'? It is...?

 

 

11

Hitchcock has a winning hand in this film about a serial killer coming to the sleepy town of Santa Rosa. It is...?

 

 

12

Nearing the end of his career now and Hitch is in a wheelchair in an airport in this cold war spy story. It is...?

 

 

13

Another train station cameo. He appears and then disappears very quickly in this one. It is...?

 

 

14

And finally, here he is in neon in his film famous for being made to appear as if it is one continuous shot. It is...?

 

 

 

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