The Catholic Hitchcock

A Director's Sense of Good & Evil

Richard Alleva July 12, 2010 - 3:58pm

“I don’t think I can be labeled a Catholic artist,” the director Alfred Hitchcock told François Truffaut, “but it may be that one’s early upbringing influences a man’s life and guides his instinct.”

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13, 1899, in Leytonstone, a district of London’s East End, to a grocer named William, and his wife, Emma. On his father’s side, Catholicism went back perhaps only two generations, but Emma was of Irish stock and her traceable ancestors were all...

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Richard Alleva has been reviewing movies for Commonweal since 1990.

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