Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films other iconic stairwell shot comes from the movie "Suspicion" as Cary Grant slowly walks up the stairs to deliver what would have been the poisonous warmed milk to his wife. Hitchcock, the studios and Grant decided his character could not end up as a murderer and that scene becomes a red herring with a new ending added. In "The Birds", the camera follows Tippi Hedren up the stairs to the attic where (suspensefully) the birds wait silently to attack her. Staircases also appear prominently in the 'ball-gown scene' in "Rebecca" and in the 'guard-dog scene' in "Strangers on a Train".
Don Taylor (American actor and director) in Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17". His last major film role came in "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (1955). From the late 1950s through the 1980s, Taylor turned to directing movies and TV shows, such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", the short-lived "Steve Canyon", starring Dean Fredericks, and Rod Serling's "Night Gallery". One of his memorable efforts, in 1973, was the musical film "Tom Sawyer," which boasted a Sherman Brothers song score. Other films that Taylor directed are "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" (1971), "Echoes of a Summer" (1976), "The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday" (also 1976), "The Island of Dr. Moreau"