Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho reputation, including "Rope", "Rear Window", "To Catch a Thief", "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and "North by Northwest". The project, which Hitchcock tackled in part to compete with financially successful, low-budget, youth-oriented horror movies, went on to astound many by becoming a cultural watershed, an international box-office success, a film classic, and a forerunner of the violent, disorienting films and real-events of the turbulent 1960s and '70s. "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" was initially distributed in hardcover print by W.W. Norton for Dembner Books on April 15, 1990 in the United States. A trade paperback edition was
Pat Hitchcock Fog: Alfred Hitchcock's San Francisco" by Jeff Kraft and Aaron Leventhal, which was published in 2002. In 2003, she published "Alma Hitchcock: The Woman Behind the Man", co-written with Laurent Bouzereau. Pat Hitchcock Patricia Alma O'Connell (née Hitchcock; born 7 July 1928), commonly known as Pat Hitchcock, is an English actress and producer. She is the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of his films, starting with "Stage Fright" (1950). Hitchcock was born in London in 1928, the only child of film director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville.