Alfred Hitchcock Ben Hecht consulted Robert Millikan of the California Institute of Technology about the development of a uranium bomb. Selznick complained that the notion was "science fiction", only to be confronted by the news of the detonation of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in August 1945. Hitchcock formed an independent production company, Transatlantic Pictures, with his friend Sidney Bernstein. He made two films with Transatlantic, one of which was his first colour film. With "Rope" (1948), Hitchcock experimented with marshalling suspense in a confined environment, as he had done earlier with "Lifeboat" (1944). The film appears to
Hamlet (1948 film) halves and telecast over a period of two weeks, rather than being shown complete on one evening. In North America, Olivier's "Hamlet" has been released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection, which has also released his film versions of "Henry V" and "Richard III" on DVD. The film has been released on Blu-ray Disc in the UK, however this disc is Region B locked and will not work in most American players. Hamlet (1948 film) Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence