The Opposite of Hitchcock Trivia Quiz

Answer: To Catch a Thief

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly starred in this romantic Hitchcock movie. Cary Grant was fifty when he took on the role of playing thirty-five year old cat burglar John Robie. Grace Kelly died in a car accident on the same road that was used in a car chase scene in "To Catch a Thief".

The movie was based on a book by David Dodge of the same title. This was Grace Kelly's final Hitchcock film. She became Princess Grace of Monaco one year later and the citizens of Monaco disapproved of her starring as Marnie in Hitchcock's 1964 movie.

Answer: Rear Window

"Rear Window" was considered one of Hitchcock's finest mysteries. Jimmy Stewart played a voyeur stuck in his apartment because of a broken leg. While spying on his neighbors, he believed he saw one of them kill his wife. Hitchcock based the movie on a short story by Cornell Woolrich called "It Had to Be Murder". With this film, Mr. Hitchcock wanted his viewers to feel the imprisonment that Jeffries did as he only saw what was through his binoculars and nothing else outside his apartment building.

Answer: The Man Who Knew Too Much

"The Man Who Knew Too Much" starred James Stewart and Doris Day as a vacationing couple whose son was kidnapped while they were overseas. In the movie, Doris sang the famous tune "Que Sera, Sera" earning the movie an Academy Award for Best Song. The 1956 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" was a remake of the original 1934 version.

Answer: Psycho

When the movie was first released to theaters, Hitchcock did so with the agreement that no one running late for the movie would be allowed to enter the theater after the movie began. "Psycho" was based on a novel by Robert Bloch. It starred Janet Leigh as a woman on the run who spent the night in the Bates motel and never left alive.

Answer: Suspicion

Joan Fontaine won an Oscar in 1941 for her role as Cary Grant's wife in "Suspicion". This was the only actress to win an acting award for a Hitchcock movie. The movie was based on the book "Before the Fact" by Francis Iles. Joan Fontaine starred as a woman who believed her husband was trying to kill her after her inheritance from her father turned out only to be a portrait.

Answer: The Wrong Man

"The Wrong Man" with Henry Fonda was based on a true story of a man who was imprisoned for a crime committed by his look-alike. The movie contained a rare moment for Hitchcock in that it was the only movie in which he narrated the beginning of the movie.

Answer: Shadow of a Doubt

Alfred Hitchcock's wife helped co-write the screenplay for Hitchcock's favorite film. Teresa Wright starred as young woman who learned her favorite uncle was a killer.

Answer: Notorious

"Notorious" was filmed in 1946 with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as the title characters. Ingrid Bergman starred as a woman used by the FBI to gather secrets on her new husband. The Hitchcock movie was based on the short story "The Song of a Dragon" by John Taintor Foote.

Answer: North by Northwest

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint starred in this 1959 Hitchcock suspense thriller. "North by Northwest" was known as the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures. Cary Grant starred as a man being chased by government agents who believed he held secrets that could not be released to the public.

The movie ended with a climactic scene on Mount Rushmore. Hitchcock was quoted in "Cahiers du Cinema" as saying the train entering the tunnel at movie's end was a symbol of Eva Marie Saint and Cary Grant's unseen love scene.

Answer: The Lady Vanishes

"The Lady Vanishes" was released in 1938 and starred Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood. The movie centered around the disappearance of an elderly woman while on a moving train. It was Hitchcock's last movie filmed in the U.K. before he moved to the United States.