Alfred Hitchcock - A Cameo

Psycho (1960) is famed for its shower murder sequence a classic model of shot selection and editing which was startling for its (apparent) nudity, graphic violence and its violation of the narrative convention that makes a protagonist invulnerable.

Later films offered intriguing amplifications of his main themes. The Birds (1963) presented evil as an environmental fact of life. Marnie (1964), a psychoanalytical thriller along the lines of Spellbound.

His final film, Family Plot (1976), pitted two couples against one another: a pair of professional thieves versus a female psychic and her working-class lover. It was a fitting end to a body of work that demonstrated the eternal symmetry of good and evil.

Let's see how observant you lovers of classic Hitchcock films are?

Below is a list of six scenarios where Alfred Hitchcock makes his infamous cameo appearances. Can you name the movie? Sorry no prizes... It's all in the challenge! Please leave you answers in discussions:

1. Coming out of an elevator at the Empire Hotel, carrying a violin case and smoking a cigarette, 40 minutes in.

2. Boarding a train with a double bass fiddle as protagonist gets off in his hometown, early in the film.

3. On the left side of the class-reunion photo, thirteen minutes into the film.

4. Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment, a half hour into the movie.

5. Four minutes in, through window of an office. He is wearing a cowboy hat.

6. Early in the film, sitting in the Hotel d'Angleterre lobby with a blond baby.

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