This project was started January 2014 with 'Family Plot', and all Hitch's sound features were watched by his birthday on the 13th August 2016, with the synchronised/sound version of 'Blackmail'.
The list of films in this list are organised in order of star ratings, and rankings within that star rating. I have included a few films which are often excluded from the official list of Hitchcock films (Elstree Calling, Mary, and two shorts made during the Second World War, Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache). This makes the list of sound features total 48.
The silent features, nine in number, will be ranked in another list, and may be combined at a future date if alternative versions of films are allowed…
This project was started January 2014 with 'Family Plot', and all Hitch's sound features were watched by his birthday on the 13th August 2016, with the synchronised/sound version of 'Blackmail'.
The list of films in this list are organised in order of star ratings, and rankings within that star rating. I have included a few films which are often excluded from the official list of Hitchcock films (Elstree Calling, Mary, and two shorts made during the Second World War, Bon Voyage and Aventure Malgache). This makes the list of sound features total 48.
The silent features, nine in number, will be ranked in another list, and may be combined at a future date if alternative versions of films are allowed on Letterboxd, meaning the two versions of 'Blackmail' may be seperately ranked in one list.
With this in mind, I am also including both sets of rankings in this note, and will also include both in the note for the silent list of rewatches, which will commence with the silent version of 'Blackmail' (1929) and finish with 'The Pleasure Garden' (1925).
So, without more ado, the final ranking of sound Hitchcock films:
1-20
Lifeboat | Rebecca | The Lady Vanishes | Psycho | The 39 Steps | Strangers on a Train | Shadow of a Doubt | Frenzy | Notorious | Rear Window | North by Northwest | The Wrong Man | Vertigo | The Man Who Knew Too Much (original) | Blackmail | Sabotage | Under Capricorn | Young and Innocent | Rope | Jamaica Inn
21-40
Foreign Correspondent | Dial M for Murder | Family Plot | I Confess | Mr and Mrs Smith | Rich and Strange | The Man Who Knew Too Much (remake) | The Trouble With Harry | Mary | Torn Curtain | Spellbound | Stage Fright | Suspicion | Saboteur | Juno and the Paycock | Murder! | The Skin Game | Waltzes from Vienna | Secret Agent | To Catch a Thief
41-48
Marnie | The Birds | Elstree Calling | Bon Voyage | The Paradine Case | Topaz | Number Seventeen | Aventure Malgache
Still to watch (with pre-project star rankings):
49 Blackmail (silent version) (*****)
50 The Manxman (****)
51 Champagne (***)
52 Easy Virtue (****)
53 The Farmer's Wife (***)
54 Downhill (****)
55 The Ring (*****)
56 The Lodger (*****)
57 The Pleasure Garden (***1/2)