In the dark
Philip Horne, 1 December 1983
The Life of Alfred Hitchcock: The Dark Side of Genius
by Donald Spoto.
Collins, 594 pp., £12.95, May 1983,0 00 216352 7 Show More
by Donald Spoto.
Collins, 594 pp., £12.95, May 1983,
Howard Hawks, Storyteller
by Gerald Mast.
Oxford, 406 pp., £16.50, June 1983,0 19 503091 5 Show More
by Gerald Mast.
Oxford, 406 pp., £16.50, June 1983,
“... information to light. Its blurb called it ‘the only serious biography of the man himself’. Now Donald Spoto, author of The Art of Alfred Hitchcock (1976), has undertaken to show The Dark Side of Genius, on the ground that (according to his blurb) ‘the intensely private, secretive Hitchcock eluded the serious biographer until now.’ This is unfair ... ”