Hitchcock was known as the master of suspense whose films came to be the benchmark for psychological thrillers. "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." "the only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them." "It is a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on." "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible." "I am a typed director. If I was to make cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach." Alfred Hitchcock
"under the strong influence of Alfred Hitchcock, thrillers often begin with a crime an the accusation of an innocent bystander. were the accused to contact the authorities, no doubt the case could be promptly solved but instead the poor bystander runs from the law thus further jeopardising life and limb."
"The thirty nine steps suspense films abandon both thrills and suspense when the falsely accused character finally reaches safety" Rick Altman
An example of this is the saboteur (1942)
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