Oct 07, 2008
15 min
Full-HD

Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro (2008)

No director-composer collaboration has been more seminal to motion pictures than the partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. In this documentary we examine the long and sometimes painful partnership that produced unforgettable musical scores for such films as Vertigo, Psycho, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Leva FilmWorks

Donald Spoto

Self

Nathan Barr

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self

Steven C. Smith

Self

John Carpenter

Self

John Murphy

Self

David Sterritt

Self

Joe Carnahan

Self

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