Hitchcock was a dirty old man – but I'll still watch this gripping classic
Almost all of the films from Hitchcock’s American period, which began in 1939, are, for me, deeply dissatisfying. While those he had made in England – such as The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) – display an unselfconscious storytelling style, his American films seem to lean too heavily on the director’s unfortunate reputation as a dirty old man, and his fetishised ideal of the perfect blonde, such as Grace Kelly, or Tippi Hedren. Some I find downright repellent, Psycho (1960) above
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