Sidney Gilliat

‘Jamaica Inn’ (1939) mercifully ends Hitchcock’s British period

Alfred Hitchcock adapted three Daphne Du Maurier works, more than any other author. Two are famous: the Oscar-winning “Rebecca” (1940) and the creature-feature favorite “The

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Intrigue disappears behind comedy in ‘The Lady Vanishes’ (1938)

Four years after Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” chronicled a mystery on a snowed-in train in Eastern Europe, Afred Hitchcock did the same

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‘Endless Night’ gets made into sneaky great 1972 film

As a general historical truth, Agatha Christie didn’t see a lot of great film adaptations of her work in her lifetime. What she really missed

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