Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock,( 13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and extensively studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Known as" the Master of Suspense", he directed over 50 feature films in a career spanning six decades, becoming as well known as any of his actors thanks to his many interviews, his cameo roles in most of his films, and his hosting and producing of the television anthology" Alfred Hitchcock Presents"( 1955 – 1965).
His films garnered a total of 46 Oscar nominations and six wins.
Born in Leytonstone, Essex, Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1919 as a title card designer after training as a technical clerk and copy writer for a telegraph- cable company.
He made his directorial debut with the silent film" The Pleasure Garden"( 1925).
His first successful film,( 1927), helped to shape the thriller genre, while his 1929 film," Blackmail", was the first British.
Two of his 1930s thrillers," The 39 Steps"( 1935) and" The Lady Vanishes"( 1938), are ranked among the greatest British films of the 20th century.
By 1939 Hitchcock was a filmmaker of international importance, and film producer David O. Selznick persuaded him to move to Hollywood.
A string of successful films followed, including" Rebecca"( 1940)," Foreign Correspondent"( 1940)," Suspicion"( 1941)," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943), and" Notorious"( 1946).
" Rebecca" won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Hitchcock himself was only nominated as Best Director; he was also nominated for" Lifeboat"( 1944) and" Spellbound"( 1945), although he never won the Best Director Academy Award.
The" Hitchcockian" style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs, and framing shots to maximise anxiety and fear.
The film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film" is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot.
A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."
After a brief lull of commercial success in the late 1940s, Hitchcock returned to form with" Strangers on a Train"( 1951) and" Dial M For Murder"( 1954).
By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time:" Rear Window"( 1954)," Vertigo"( 1958)," North by Northwest"( 1959), and" Psycho"( 1960) with the first and last of these garnering him Best Director nominations.
In 2012," Vertigo" replaced Orson Welles's" Citizen Kane"( 1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made based on its world- wide poll of hundreds of film critics.
By 2018 eight of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite," Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
He received the BAFTA Fellowship in 1971, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1979 and was knighted in December that year, four months before he died.
Marius (1931 film)
Marius is a 1931 French drama film directed by Alexander Korda.
It is based on the play with the same title by Marcel Pagnol.
The film is a part of a trilogy which includes the films" Fanny"( Marius's ex-fiancée) and" César"( Marius's father).
The film was selected to be screened in the Cannes Classics section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
The restored film was also given a limited re-release in the United States by Janus Films on 4 January 2017, first premiering at Film Forum.
The film was made by Korda for the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures.
A separate Swedish- language version" Längtan till havet" by John W. Brunius was also released in 1931 and a German- language version" The Golden Anchor", also directed by Korda, was released the following year.
Dial M for Murder
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, and John Williams.
Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott.
The play premiered in 1952 on BBC Television, before being performed on stage in the same year in London's West End in June, and then New York's Broadway in October.
Originally intended to be shown in dual- strip polarized 3- D, the film played in most theatres in ordinary 2- D due to the loss of interest in the 3- D process( the projection of which was difficult and error- prone) by the time of its release.
The film earned an estimated$ 2.7 million in North American box office rentals in 1954.
New Year (1989 film)
" New Year" is a 1989 Malayalam movie which was a remake of 1985 Hindi movie" Aitbaar" which itself was a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's classic murder mystery" Dial M for Murder".
Alexander Korda
Sir Alexander Korda( born Sándor László Kellner, 16 September 1893 – 23 January 1956) was a British film producer and director and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company.
Born in Hungary, where he began his career, he worked briefly in the Austrian and German film industries during the era of silent films, before being based in Hollywood from 1926 to 1930 for the first of his two brief periods there( the other was during World War II).
The change led to a divorce from his first wife, the Hungarian film actress María Corda, who was unable to make the transition from silent films to" talkies" because of her strong Hungarian accent.
From 1930, Korda was active in the British film industry, and soon became one of its leading figures.
He was the founder of London Films and, post-war, the owner of British Lion Films, a film distribution company.
Korda produced many outstanding classics of the British film industry, including" The Private Life of Henry VIIIRembrandtThings To Come The Thief of Baghdad" and" The Third Man".
In 1942, Korda became the first filmmaker to receive a knighthood.
Satan Town
Satan Town is a 1926 American Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Prints of the film have survived.
Norman Afzal Simons
Norman Avzal Simons( born 12 January 1967), also known as the" Station Strangler," is a South African rapist and serial killer who was convicted in 1995 on one count of murder and one count of kidnapping Elroy van Rooy, age 10.
He was sentenced to 35 years( 25 for murder and 10 for kidnapping) in prison.
John Williams (actor)
John Williams( 15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) was an English stage, film and television actor.
He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's" Dial M for Murder", as the chauffeur in Billy Wilder's" Sabrina"( both 1954), and as portraying the second" Mr. French" on TV's" Family Affair" in its first season( 1967).
April Walker
April Walker( 1941) is a British actress, primarily for the BBC, best known for her regular appearances on the hit variety show" The Two Ronnies", episodic guest roles on numerous other shows, such as" Fawlty Towers" and" Dial M for Murder", and also for having been the first woman cast in the seminal role of Sarah Jane Smith for the series" Doctor Who".
Sayeed Quadri
Sayeed Quadri is an Indian poet and lyricist who works in Bollywood.
He was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
He won the Best Lyricist award at the 6th IIFA Awards for" Murder", and Standout Performance by Lyricist at the Stardust Awards 2005 for" Murder".

Question: Do both films, Dial M For Murder and Marius (1931 Film), have the directors who are from the same country?
Answer: yes