Alfred Hitchcock is known as the ‘Master of Suspense’ but I contend he is the ‘Master of the Visual’. His movies make perfect sense with the sound turned off. Don’t worry, we’ll turn the sound on. His remarkable ability with light, shadow, and camera made masterpieces. While so many of his films are masterpieces, Hitchcock said he wanted to make ‘refrigerator’ movies. He wanted his audiences to go home, open the refrigerator, take out a chicken leg and start talking about the movies. We will take a look at The Thirty Nine Steps, Notorious (Ingrid Bergman has the best cinematic hangover ever), Lifeboat (in my opinion his most underrated movie), Rear Window (Grace Kelly and Jimmy Stewart play second fiddle to the set. Yes, the set is the star of the movie), Vertigo, North by Northwest (there is a popular critique of this movie that argues Cary Grant’s suit is the star of the film). Yes, as usual I’ve not decided on the last two!