I Am Alfred Hitchcock is a wonderfully produced and edited documentary on the iconic director - but it does have one distressing omission.
Not once during its 84-minute running time do we hear the name: Bernard Herrmann - the talented composer who created the score's for Hitchcock's most successful films - notably Psycho.
The doc does feature content on Hitch's collaboration with his wife and Joan Harrison and rightly covers their contributions to his films, particularly the female characters.
However, there is nothing on the legendary and sometimes stormy relationship between Hitchcock and Hermmann - whose rich music heightened great films such as Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and the remake of the Man Who Knew Too Much. Before Spielberg and Williams it was the most famous director-composer tandem in Hollywood -- not including a mention of Hermmann is strange omission.
Not once during its 84-minute running time do we hear the name: Bernard Herrmann - the talented composer who created the score's for Hitchcock's most successful films - notably Psycho.
The doc does feature content on Hitch's collaboration with his wife and Joan Harrison and rightly covers their contributions to his films, particularly the female characters.
However, there is nothing on the legendary and sometimes stormy relationship between Hitchcock and Hermmann - whose rich music heightened great films such as Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho and the remake of the Man Who Knew Too Much. Before Spielberg and Williams it was the most famous director-composer tandem in Hollywood -- not including a mention of Hermmann is strange omission.