and Victor Saville he directed, Easy Virtue, The Lodger, and .

             Downhill. These films had already won for Alfred"s creative .

             reputation of suspense. (Current Biography) .

             Alfred Hitchcock"s secrets of suspense: Let us suppose that three men are sitting in a room in which a ticking bomb has been planted. It is going to go off in ten minutes. The audience does not know it is there, and the men do not know either, so they go on taking inanely about the weather or yesterday"s base ball game. After ten minutes of desultory conversation the bomb goes off. What"s the result? The unsuspecting audience gets a surprise. That"s all. But suppose the story were told differently. This time while the men still do not know the bomb is there, the audience does know. The men still talk inanities, but now the most banal thing they say is charged with excitement. When one finally says, " Let"s leave!," the entire audience is praying for them to do so. But another man says, "No. Wait a minute. I want to finish my coffee." The audience groans inwardly and yearns for them to leave. That is suspense." (Heydt 30).

             Hitchcock did not get into his work seriously until he made a .

             series of six motion pictures for Gaumont-British from 1935 to 1938. .

             This particular series was called the, Hitchcock Cycle, the series .

             gave him the possibility to work with the American Film Industry .

             executives. The movies were the following: The Man Who Knew .

             Too Much, The Lady Vanishes, Secret Agent, The Girl Was Young, .

             Sabotage, and The 39 Steps. The movie critics of New York City .

             voted his movie, The 39 Steps, the best-directed motion picture of .

             1938. (Current Biography).

             An exciting treatment of the Jack the Ripper story, is one of .

             Alfred Hitchcock"s first films, The Lodger, which was filmed in the .

             silent era. The Lodger, is about a family that is suspecting their .

             roomer of being Jack the Ripper. This kind of thriller is what .