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
Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films films, also: In Hitchcock's films, trains are often featured. Extended sequences on trains occur in a number of Hitchcock films, including Some of his films take place in the past as opposed to the modern day, As related in articles by François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer and others in the French film magazine "Cahiers du Cinema"—and in Chabrol and Rohmer's book "Hitchcock" (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957) -- Hitchcock often sets up a villain/antagonist who has a dark secret. In the course of the film, Hitchcock, through the screenplay and the filming, makes it clear that the hero/protagonist somehow shares