Everybody Knew the Truth About Hitchcock
The saddest part in all of this was that everyone knew the truth about Alfred Hitchcock. Bear in mind that we are still talking about the 1960s; a time where feminism hasn’t really become a global phenomenon and women are used to being treated as the inferior gender.
Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) and Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) walk among Dead Sea gulls in a scene from the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock horror, The Birds. (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
It’s believed that Hitchcock’s wife, Alma was also aware of these lowly acts of harassment, but nobody felt like questioning the famous and influential director who was stepping on people as if he was the Overseer.