The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Food:
Crucial scenes are set at the dining area of the train, including the name Froy on the window.
Cameo:
Hitchcock can be seen at Victoria Station, wearing a black coat and smoking a cigarette, near the end of the film
Rebecca:
Party:
Second Mrs. de Winter e tries to please her husband by holding a costume party as he and Rebecca used to. Danvers suggests she copy the dress that one of Maxim’s ancestors is seen wearing in a portrait. However, when she appears in the costume, Maxim is appalled as Rebecca had worn an identical dress at her last ball, just before her death.
Hero: aristocratic widower Maxim de Winter
Villain: Ex-wife, Rebecca, promiscuous woman, affairs with men, including her cousin
Mrs Davneport, housekeeper, loyal, lesbian
Jack Favell
George Sanders: When Rebecca implied she was pregnant by her cousin and lover, Jack Favell, she taunted Maxim that the estate might pass to someone other than Maxim’s line.
Cameo
Hitchcock’s cameo appearance, a signature feature of his films, takes place near the end; he is seen walking, back turned to the audience, outside a phone box just after Jack Favell completes a call.
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Cameo:
When Joel McCrea first spots Van Meer on the street in London, Hitchcock walks past reading a newspaper.
Party/Food:
lunch, where Van Meer disappears, but McCrae meets love interest Carol
Breakfast: McCrea, Marshall, and Carol
family: father and daughter (Herbert Marshall)
Hero: American crime Reporter, based in London, John Jones, using the pen name “Huntley Haverstock” (Joel McCrea), sent to cover conditions there n eve of WWII.
Villian: The bodyguard, Rowley (Edmund Gwenn) true task is to kill Jones.
He is working with Fisher and Krug in the plot against Van Meer. Rowley tries to push Jones off the top of Westminster Cathedral tower but falls to his death himself.
Setting: London
Suspicion (1941)
