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Powell and Hitchcock

7 January, 2009 (00:42) | Alfred Hitchcock, Essays, Michael Powell, by Richard T. Jameson | By: Richard T. Jameson

[This was written on May 15, 2001, for the Northwest Film Forum newsletter.]

Michael Powell worked uncredited as a set designer and title writer on Alfred Hitchcock’s 1929 movie Blackmail. Which is neither here nor there, but does serve to mark the accidental convergence of England’s two most exciting directorial talents.

I was dreaming about [...]