Alma Reville Filmography

The Paradine Case

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Louis Jourdan, Ethel Barrymore

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband. British barrister Anthony Keane (played by the aggressively American Gregory Peck) takes on the case-and in the process, falls in love with Anna, despite Read More

It's in the Bag

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Allen, Jack Benny, William Bendix, Binnie Barnes, Robert Benchley

Synopsis: Based on the popular Russian novel The Twelve Chairs, this stars Fred Allen as flea-circus impresario Fred Floogle. Learning that he's inherited $12 million from his uncle, Fred also discovers that the money has been stuffed in one of thirteen chairs that he's sold at auction. The rest of the film Read More

Shadow of a Doubt

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey, Henry Travers, Patricia Collinge

Synopsis: Teresa Wright plays Charlie, a small-town high-schooler who enjoys a symbiotic relationship with her favorite uncle, also named Charlie (Joseph Cotten). When young Charlie "wills" that old Charlie pay a visit to her family, her wish comes true. Uncle Charlie is his usual charming self, but he Read More

Suspicion

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty

Synopsis: Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is little more than a fortune-hunter, Fontaine marries him anyway. She remains loyal to her irresponsible husband as he plows his way from one disreputable business scheme to Read More

Jamaica Inn

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Hay Petrie, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Basil Radford, Frederick Piper

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from Hitchcock's early British period before he left for the Hollywood studio system and David O. Selznick. In the England of the 1800s, a group of ruthless smugglers, led by Sir Read More

The Lady Vanishes

Crew: Continuity, Screenwriter

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker

Synopsis: The Lady Vanishes, Alfred Hitchcock's comedy-thriller, came at the end of his British period; this film's success brought Hitchcock to the attention of Hollywood. He would complete only one other British production, Jamaica Inn, before crossing the Atlantic to working for David O. Selznick on Rebecca Read More

Young and Innocent

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare

Synopsis: As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as they were thoroughly entertaining-which they were, without fail. Derrick De Marney finds himself in a 39 Steps situation when he is wrongly accused of murder. While a Read More

Sabotage

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour

Synopsis: Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife Sylvia Sidney doesn't suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she's picked up enough second-hand information about her husband's activities to arouse the interest of government agent (John Loder Read More

Secret Agent

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, John Gielgud, Robert Young, Percy Marmont

Synopsis: Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along with The 39 Steps and Sabotage). Set during WWI, John Gielgud plays British novelist Edgar Brodie who discovers that a government agency has faked his own death. He is then Read More

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, John Turnbull

Synopsis: The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Jerome K. Jerome's mystical 1908 stage play, was given perfunctory treatment in this 1935 film version. Conrad Veidt assumes the old J. Forbes Robertson role as the Mysterious Stranger who moves into a cheap boarding house run by despicable landlord Wright (Frank Cellier Read More

The 39 Steps

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Lucie Mannheim

Synopsis: This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later work. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a music hall Read More

The Forbidden Territory

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire, Binnie Barnes

Synopsis: A British aristocrat and his son travel to Russia to embark upon a thrilling search for the father's other son, who was captured by the Russians after he had inadvertently stumbled across a highly secret airstrip while searching for buried treasure. The searchers find assistance with two Russian Read More

Waltzes from Vienna

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fay Compton, Jessie Matthews, Edmund Gwenn, Esmond Knight, Frank Vosper

Synopsis: Anxious to finish off his contract with British International Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock agreed to direct Waltzes from Vienna, a schmaltzy musical about "waltz king" Joseph Strauss and his son Joseph Jr. Edmund Gwenn stars as the elder Strauss, with Esmond Knight as his talented progeny. The crux Read More

Nine Till Six

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this romance, the love lives of several London dress shop employees are chronicled. Much of the story centers upon the head dressmaker who gets into trouble by borrowing one of her own designs to attend a gala with a rich fellow and finds herself accused of stealing it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Number 17

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Donald Calthrop, John Stuart, Barry Jones

Synopsis: This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient (Leon M. Lion) who accidentally discovers the hideout of a gang of jewel thieves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Water Gypsies

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ann Todd, Sara Maritza, Richard Bird, Frances Doble

Synopsis: This realistic British drama chronicles the lives of gypsies who live in barges on the Thames. The story begins when a beautiful young gypsy finds herself becoming attracted to a luxurious life after she is hired as a famous artist's mode. To ensure she can stay, the woman makes romantic overtures Read More

The Outsider

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joan Barry, Harold Huth, Frank Lawton, Norman McKinnel, Annie Esmond

Synopsis: In this drama, an inventor creates a new surgical that could revolutionize the treatment of cripples, but is unable to convince highly conservative, traditional minded physicians to use it. He finally convinces one doctor to use it on his daughter. It is a tremendous success, the girl walks, and Read More

Sally in Our Alley

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, Florence Desmond, Fred Groves, Gibb McLaughlin

Synopsis: This romantic war drama takes its title from the 18th century Henry Carey song about a plucky but poor girl waiting for her love's seven years of indentured servitude to end so they can wed. Like the heroine in the song, Sally Winch (Gracie Fields), a singer in a café, is in love with a young man Read More

The Skin Game

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Phyllis Konstam, Jill Esmond, John Longden, C.V. France, Helen Haye, Frank Lawton

Synopsis: This uncharacteristic Alfred Hitchcock endeavor was adapted by Hitch and his wife, Alma Reville, from a play by John Galsworthy. The British countryside turns into an ideological battlefield when Hornblower (Edmund Gwenn), a wealthy, self-man tradesman, stakes his claim to a piece of valuable Read More

Rich and Strange

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph

Synopsis: This atypical Alfred Hitchcock effort is a cautionary fable which lends credence to the old saw "Love flies out the door when money flies in the window." Joan Barry and Henry Kendall play a young married couple who suddenly come into an inheritance. Bored with their working-class existence, hero Read More

Murder

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, R.E. Jeffrey, Miles Mander

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's second all-talkie thriller, Murder stars Herbert Marshall as pompous actor-manager Sir John Menier, a send-up of George DuMaurier. Summoned for jury duty, Sir John is one of 12 people who must decide the fate of Diana Baring (Norah Baring), a young actress on trial for murder. Read More

Juno and the Paycock

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Maire O'Neill, Sydney Morgan, Kathleen O'Regan

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's second talkie was a surprisingly static adaptation of the Sean O'Casey stage drama Juno and the Paycock. Set during the Irish "troubles" of the early 1920s, the film focuses on the trials and tribulations of a typical Dublin tenement family. Sara Allgood is brilliant as family Read More

After the Verdict

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this British tale of supense, a young woman attempts to seduce a famous tennis star. When she turns up dead, the athlete's real lover is blamed and must fight to prove her innocence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Romance of Seville

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, a jewel thief fears that his mistress will leave him for the artist who is fixated with her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The First Born

Crew: Screenwriter

The Constant Nymph

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mabel Poulton, Ivor Novello, Mary Clare, Dorothy Boyd, Benita Hume

Synopsis: This is the first of three film versions of Margaret Kennedy's 1924 novel The Constant Nymph. Mabel Poulton plays the title character, an impressionable young girl named Tessa, who falls in love with brilliant but impoverished composer Lewis Dodd (Ivor Novello). Dodd, however, barely acknowledges Read More

South Sea Bubble

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ivor Novello, Benita Hume, Ben Field, Annette Benson, Sydney Seaward

The Ring

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carl Brisson, Lilian Hall Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey, Gordon Harker, Harry Terry

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's silent The Ring is a traditional prizefighting melodrama, elevated by the richness of the characterizations and the stylish, Germanic use of the camera. Carl Brisson plays "Round One," a cocky young boxer who matriculates from sideshow bouts to the big time. Round One's marriage Read More