【世界文化博览】惊悚大师：希区柯克 1

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In February 1927, London audiences got their first real taste of an Alfred Hitchcock film. The Lodger is now recognised as the first Hitchcock masterpiece. But as the director himself liked to recall, the film and with it his career was very nearly stillborn.
Unfortunately, when the film was finished, the distributors sent down two representatives to view the film. And they came out and said it was awful, and it was a dreadful picture. Well, you know, this is a pretty low aim to get. And it was on the shelf for about two months, and then they decided to show it after all. They felt they had an investment. And it was shown, and it was acclaimed as the greatest British picture ever made to that date. So there you see is that thin red line between failure and success.