Alfred Hitchcock filmography Code which at the time limited such scenes to three seconds. In 1948, Hitchcock directed "Rope" which starred James Stewart. The film was his first in Technicolor and is remembered for its use of long takes to make the film appear to be a single continuous shot. Three years later he directed "Strangers on a Train" (1951). Hitchcock collaborated with Grace Kelly on three films: "Dial M for Murder" (1954), "Rear Window" (1954) and "To Catch a Thief" (1955). For "Rear Window", Hitchcock received a nomination for Best Director at the Academy Awards. 1955 marked his debut on television as
Alfred Hitchcock Mountain Eagle" (1926), released in the United States as "Fear o' God". The film is lost; Hitchcock called it "a very bad movie". Hitchcock's luck changed with his first thriller, "" (1927), about the hunt for a serial killer who, wearing a black cloak and carrying a black bag, is murdering young blonde women in London, and only on Tuesdays. A landlady suspects that her lodger is the killer, but he turns out to be innocent. To convey that footsteps were being heard from an upper floor, Hitchcock had a glass floor made so that the audience could see the