European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Sam Bauman staff writer i new film directors Are Bette known to the casual  than portly Alfred Hitchcock the master of the suspense genre who income 40 years of film creating has carved his own special Niche with skill and intelligence. For better or worse that Niche i tagged suspense master of one each. While the tag to a certain extent is Justi fied to let it go at that would be Akin to dismissing h. G. Wells As a science fiction  generally have been More ready to note the special qualities that Are imprinted on each Hitchcock production than americans who perhaps look on Hitchcock As that funny fat Fel Low with the British accent who introduces those television things. Thus it is that a Frenchman had to make a definitive study of the director who has been churning out epics for the last20 years in Hollywood. The Frenchman film critic director producer Francois Truffaut who has created such epics As Jules and Jim and the 400 blows titled his study of the master simply  the Book published by Simon and schuster has a Fine collection of stills from Hitchcock films and of the director at work. It s based on some 50hours of interviews and 500 questions. As neither Truffaut or Hitchcock speak each other s language with skill Helen g. Scott a professional government film Liaison assistant fielded the trans lations which come through admirably. From the outset it is Clear that Truf Faut has done his Homework you were born in London on August 13, 1899. The Only thing i know about your childhood is the incident at the police  confirms the Story the chief locked Alfie up for a few minutes say ing this is what we do to naughty boys and off they go. Or the film Buff the work is must. For the More casual moviegoer it is Worth Reading just to see what he has perhaps been missing. Besides there is a fascinating wealth of simple tale about movie work Hitchcock s first film As director when he had to borrow Money from the leading lady to wind up location work in Italy for instance. And there is a boffo line in which Hitchcock recalls his earliest Days in movies when he was working As a title editor in the silent Days outside of Lon Don. Discussing a film called easy Vir tue he tells of the worst title i be Ever written. At the beginning the film shows Laurita the heroine during her divorce Case. She is Well known an tells her Story to the court. The photographers gather outside. Eventually she appears at the courthouse stairs her arms out and says shoot there nothing left to kill " some of the More thought  comments on sound films in Many of the films now being made there is very Little Cinema the Yare mostly what i Call photographs of people talking when we Tell a Story i Cinema we should resort to dialogue Only when it s impossible to do  on adapting plays or famous books to movies i must say i did t feel like making the picture Sean o Casey s epic Juno and the Haycock because although read the play Over and Over again i could see no Way of narrating it i cinematic form. The critics praised the picture and i had the feeling i was dishonest that i had stolen  on suspense itself to my Way of thinking mystery is Seldom suspenseful. In a whodunit for instance there is no suspense but a sort of intellectual Puzzle. The whodunit generates the kind of curiosity that is void of emotion and emotion is inessential ingredient of suspense. There is a distinct difference be tween suspense and Surprise i flex Plain. We Are now having a very innocent Little Chat. Let us suppose that there is a bomb underneath this table Between us. Nothing happens and then All of a sudden Boom the Public i surprised but prior to this Surprise it has seen an absolutely Ordinary scene. Now let us take a suspense Situa Tion. The bomb is underneath the table Peg 12 the Young Hitchcock in action the intense girl with the script was the director s Fiancee Alma revile. And the Public knows it. The Bombis going to explode at one o clock and there is a clock in the decor. I these conditions the same innocuous conversation becomes fascinating. The audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen you should the talking about such trivial matters. There s a bomb beneath you and it about to explode in the first Case we have Given the Public 15 seconds of Surprise at the moment of explosion. In the second Case we have provide them with 15 minutes of  on the sometimes wild implausibility of his films i m not concerned with plausibility that s the easiest part of it so Why bother if you re going to Analyse everything in terms of plausibility or credibility then no fiction can stand up. And you wind up doing a documentary. Some films Are slices of life. Mine Are slices of  the famous Shower murder scene of Janet Leigh in psycho it took us seven Days to shoot that scene and there were 70 camera set ups for 45 seconds of footage. We Hada Torso specially made up for that scene with the blood that was suppose to spurt away from the knife but i did t use it. I used a live girl instead a naked Model who stood in for Janet Leigh. We Only showed miss Leigh Shands shoulders and head. All the rest was the stand in. Naturally the knife never touched the body it was All done in the montage. My main satisfaction is that the entire film had an effect on the Audi ence and i consider that very import track and All of fonts that made the i feel it s tremor us to be Able to Art to achieve emotion. And with is no the definitely achieved this. W Dences message that stirred 4 e or nor was it a great Prfto Eli the their enjoyment of the were aroused by Puie my. Tad psycho Cost Usi non $800,000 to make. It is & $15 million to Date Hitchcoc figures like those a Jie unique full can continue on ins own the stars and stripes