The year Alfred Hitchcock went Psycho

By Ron Cerabona
Updated August 4 2020 - 1:01pm, first published August 1 2020 - 12:00am
Alfred Hitchcock was a shrewd self-marketer with fingers in many pies.
Alfred Hitchcock was a shrewd self-marketer with fingers in many pies.

When my mother was younger, she decided to take two older aunts to a movie. When they arrived at the cinema she saw that an Alfred Hitchcock film was about to start and, thinking it would be something glamorous and fun like To Catch a Thief, bought the tickets.