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Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films follows "Madeleine," or the Albert Hall sequence in the 1956 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Some Hitchcock films include use of the number 13, popularly an "unlucky number." "Number 13" is also the title of an unfinished Hitchcock film which would have been his directorial debut. Tennis is often mentioned in Hitchcock films. In "Strangers on a Train", the main character is a tennis player. In "Dial M for Murder", Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) is an ex-tennis player. In "Rebecca", the second Mrs. DeWinter (Joan Fontaine) claims to be taking tennis lessons from Max DeWinter (Laurence Olivier).