Who composed music for many Hitchcock films including Psycho, North by North and Vertigo?
Hitchcock & Herrmann Hitchcock & Herrmann Hitchcock & Herrmann is a play written by David Knijnenburg which examines the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock and musical composer Bernard Herrmann. By combining a talent for self-promotion and producing films that were popular, Alfred Hitchcock became one of the greatest directors of motion pictures. No less of a talent in the world of musical composition, Bernard Herrmann was a child prodigy who had worked with Orson Welles before finding a collaboration with Hitchcock on "The Trouble with Harry", ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"", "The Wrong Man", "North by Northwest", "Vertigo", ""Psycho"", "The Birds"
Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films in this secret or guilt. Examples include: Mothers are frequently depicted as intrusive and domineering, or at the very least, batty, as seen in "Notorious", "Strangers on a Train", "North by Northwest", "Psycho", "Shadow of a Doubt", and "The Birds". Hitchcock includes the consumption of brandy in many of his films. "I'll get you some brandy. Drink this down. Just like medicine ..." says Scottie Ferguson to "Madeleine Elster" in "Vertigo". In Suspicion, a character with a brandy allergy dies after taking a bet to drink a beaker-full of it; a decade later, in a real-life incident, Hitchcock dared Montgomery