Transcripts of trailers to films by Alfred Hitchcock 1940´s 1950´s 1960-1976 23 JAMAICA INN 1939 Trailer 1.44
Cards: An unique combination. The Star - Charles Laughton. The Director - Alfred Hitchcock. The Producer - Erich Pommer.
The Result - "Jamaica Inn".
(clips from film) "What is all this business of yours, uh smuggling." "No, much worse than that, (?), deliberate organized (?)."
Card: The Gang And Their Leader.
(clips from film) "(Banks shouting)" "Were said, he was the ring leader." "At Jamaica Inn yes, but he gets his orders from outside, his information comes from outside, his thinkings done for him outside." "By whom ?" "My name is Sir Humphrey Pengallan. I'm squire Pengallan and justice of the peace." "I'm Mary Yellen from Ireland." "And you're going where." "To Jamaica Inn." "It's a horrible place, I think it's nothing better than a den of smugglers." "Said I've always known just (?). It's two months Mary, neither found out who, Mary!"
Cards: But WHOSE was the brain behind it?
Charles Laughton, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Maureen O'Hara.
"Jamaica Inn" Pommer-Laughton Production. Mayflower Picture.

24 REBECCA			1940
Re-release trailer 2.20 (on laserdisc)
Card: The Selznick Studio
Voice: "Announcing the return of the most glamorous motion picture ever made. David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock bring you the grand slam prize winner that made motion picture history. Winner of the Academy Award, voted by America´s critics as the best picture of the year. And now as a result of a national poll, winning new honors as audiences throughout the country vote to see it again. The Selznick´s Studios successor to Gone With The Wind, REBECCA! Brought to the screen with all the warmth and emotion that made millions of readers acclaim Daphne de Maurier´s bestseller as the most exciting love story of our time. The fascinating Max DeWinter, lives on the screen in the person of Laurence Olivier."
(clip from film) "Why, it´s Max DeWinter" "How do you do?"
Voice: "The shy unsophisticated young girl who dared to follow in the footsteps of the beautiful Rebecca is portrayed by lovely Joan Fontaine."
(clip from film) "How could I ask you to love me when I knew you loved Rebecca still? Whenever you touched me I knew you were comparing me with Rebecca."
Voice: "What is the mystery of Rebecca, what dread secret is hidden within the silent walls of Manderley."
(clips from film) "It´s not only this room, it´s in all the rooms in the house. You can almost hear it now. Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?" "Tell me, is Mrs. Van Hopper a friend of yours or just a relation?" "No, she´s my employer, I´m what is known as a paid companion" "I didn´t know companionship could be bought"
Voice: "There is mystery, love and laughter in Rebecca. The motion picture still unsurpassed for suspenseful romance."
Cards: REBECCA. Based on Daphne De Maurier´s celebrated novel. Starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. George Sanders. Judith Anderson. Produced by David O. Selznick. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. REBECCA. The Most Glamorous Motion Picture Ever Made.
27 SUSPICION			1941
Trailer and Re-release Trailer	1.37
Cards: Starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine
Joan Fontaine: "There was something strange about John Aysgarth. I knew it long before I married him... something you couldn´t put your finger on, and yet you were always conscious of it. Conscious of something vague, restless, frightening. There was our first meeting on the hill top"
(clip from the film) "What did you think I would do?, kill you. Nothing less than murder can justify such violent selfdefense."
Joan Fontaine: "It´s so easy to think... I knew Johnny loved me as desperately as I loved him. Yet I remember though, even his reassurances seemed almost sinister."
(clips from the film) "I wan´t nothing but to spend the rest of my life with you. And if you were to die first, I..." "If I were to die first."
Joan Fontaine: "From that moment on my life was filled with fear. Thought of Johnny, I loved him too much to really be afraid. But the fear of not knowing, the agony of waiting, wondering how it would happen, waking in the middle of the night, shaking with terror and finding myself praying for ever it was, it will be done quickly and with mercy. These are the facts, the evidence before the crime. I wanted you to know in case I met a violent end...."
Cards: Cary Grant in his most striking dramatic triumph. Joan Fontaine. With Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans, Heather Angel. In SUSPICION. An RKO RADIO Release (Re-release).
28 SABOTEUR			1942
Long Trailer	2.29	(on SF Rush Video)
Cards: The screen´s Master of the unexpected... Director ALFRED HITCHCOCK. Creator of Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, Suspicion. ...brings you A Significant Story of Today... SABOTEUR. Starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings.
Robert Cummings: "I´m Barry Kane, American. Right now, I´m a fugitive. A couple of days ago, I was an aircraft worker. Then something happened. Something that could only happen in times like these. My best friend died in that fire. The authorities questioned everybody. I told them what I knew. I even offered to help but it was no good. They wouldn't believe me.
(clip from film) "There were two detectives here a moment ago, they wanted to arrest you. They said that you killed him." "That I killed..."
Robert Cummings: "You don´t know what it is to be hunted like an animal, to dread every door you open. To fear everybody, even the one girl you could love."
(clip from film) "Even if a man committed murder to defend himself, maybe I wouldn´t tell the police, but there´s only one reason why a man commits sabotage, that´s worse than murder."
Robert Cummings: "We fled through 3000 miles of terror from Los Angeles to New York. Step by step the whole vast pattern of sabotage became clear to us, we had to find those saboteurs. Saboteurs who lived in the desert like rats and spied out the land. Influencial saboteurs so crazy for power, they were willing to stab this country in the back. Well we found them and we almost wished we hadn´t."
(clip from film) "Barry, before they get to us, go up and stop the music to tell them, tell them all" "Honey, this is the Sutton mansion, I´m just a guy from Glendale, California, wanted by the police, they´ll grab me as soon as I open the mouth" "What are you gonna do, we can´t just stand here?"
Cards: You´d like to say... It can´t happen here... but every jolting scene is True!
Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings. With Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Alma Kruger, Dorothy Peterson, Clem Bevans. In SABOTEUR.
Presented by Frank Lloyd Productions, Inc. Associate Producer Jack H. Skirball. A Universal Picture.
Short Trailer	1.52
Cards: The screen´s Master of the unexpected... Director ALFRED HITCHCOCK ...brings you A Significant Story of Today... SABOTEUR. Starring Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings.
Robert Cummings: "I´m Barry Kane, American. Right now, I´m a fugitive. A couple of days ago, I was an aircraft worker. Then something happened. My best friend died in that fire. The authorities questioned everybody. I told them what I knew."
(clip from film) "There were two detectives here a moment ago, they wanted to arrest you. They said that you killed him."
Robert Cummings: "You don´t know what it is to be hunted like an animal, to dread every door you open. To fear everybody, even the one girl you could love."
(clip from film) "Even if a man committed murder to defend himself, maybe I wouldn´t tell the police, but there´s only one reason why a man commits sabotage, that´s worse than murder."
Robert Cummings: "We fled through 3000 miles of terror from Los Angeles to New York. Step by step the whole vast pattern of sabotage became clear to us, we had to find those saboteurs. Well we found them and we almost wished we hadn´t."
(clip from film) "Before they get to us, go up and stop the music to tell them, tell them all" "Honey, this is the Sutton mansion, I´m just a guy from Glendale, California, wanted by the police, they´ll grab me as soon as I open the mouth" "What are you gonna do, we can´t just stand here?"
Cards: You´d like to say... It can´t happen here... but every jolting scene is True!
Priscilla Lane and Robert Cummings. With Norman Lloyd, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Alma Kruger, Dorothy Peterson, Clem Bevans. In SABOTEUR.
Presented by Frank Lloyd Productions, Inc. Associate Producer Jack H. Skirball. A Universal Picture.
29 SHADOW OF A DOUBT		1943
Re-release Trailer 1.20  (on laserdisc)
Cards: So great, the world can never forget it... So thrilling, it had to be brought back. Teresa Wright. Joseph Cotten. In a masterpiece of mystery and suspense. Alfred Hitchcock´s Shadow of a Doubt.
(clips from film) "Do you know the world is a foul sty. Do you know if you rip the fronts of houses you´d find swine." "I don´t want you to touch my mother. So go away, I´m warning you, go away or I´ll kill you myself" "Your hands. Let me go, uncle Charlie. Let me go."
Cards: Terror warning her to kill... or be killed. Teresa Wright. Joseph Cotten. With Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers, Wallace Ford, Hume Cronyn. Shadow of a Doubt. Produced by Jack Skirball. Re-released by Realart Pictures, Inc.
30 LIFEBOAT			1944
Still looking for the trailer, if it exists

31 SPELLBOUND			1945
Trailer		1.35  (on laserdisc)	1.44	(on SF Rush Video)
Not with the key gun-shot in colour
Card: A Selznick International Presentation
Freeze frame on Hitchcock´s cameo, coming out of an elevator.
Voice: "Don´t forget this man. He has plenty to do with the terrifying mystery that causes this glamorous woman (Ingrid Bergman) to risk her life and reputation in a reckless experiment... A woman who, because of her consuming love for this man (Gregory Peck), gambles everything to unlock the fearful secret in his heart. What insidious meaning did he read into the markings on a tablecloth? Why, even when he held his sweetheart in his arms, did he gaze in fear at the dark lines of her robe. These are some of the clues in the picture which bears Hollywood´s most distinguished mark of quality." A Selznick International Picture. SPELLBOUND
(clips from film) "I take it this is your first honeymoon" "Yes, I mean, it would be if it were" (close-up on the knife)
Cards: Alfred Hitchcock´s most suspenseful achievement!
Freeze frame on Hitchcock´s cameo again.
Voice: "We told you not to forget this man. He is Alfred Hitchcock, the famous director, whom you´re not likely to forget after you see SPELLBOUND"
Cards: An incomparable combination! Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Together... to hold you irresistibly, SPELLBOUND
32 NOTORIOUS			1946
Trailer		2.07  (on laserdisc)
Cards: A notorious woman of affairs! An adventurous man of the world! They meet... and fall in love! Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock´s NOTORIOUS! with Claude Rains
(clips from film) "Oh Dev, Dev" "I´m sorry to intrude on this tender scene" "I, I knew her before you did, loved her before you did. I wasn´t as lucky as you" "I´ll take care of her myself" "No, not that way" "I stood looking at her when she was asleep, I could have..." "Quiet, Alex, no one (?) before your wedding, you (b.. ?) from that episode, let me arrange this one" "Alicia, what´s wrong with you?" "So glad you came" "I had to, I couldn´t stand anymore (w.. ?) and worry about you, It wasn´t a hangover you had that day, you were sick then" "Yes, yes, I was sick" "What is it?" "Oh Dev" "What is it dear?, what´s wrong with you" "They´re poisoning me"
Cards: Daringly directed by that master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman. With Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Madame Konstantin, Reinhold Schunzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault, Alex Minotis. Alfred Hitchcock´s NOTORIOUS!
Re-release Trailer	1.45  (on SF Rush Video)
Cards: A notorious woman of affairs! An adventurous man of the world! They meet... and fall in love! Recklessly! Daringly! Dangerously! Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, have thrilled you before. But never like this! Together for the first time! In Alfred Hitchcock´s NOTORIOUS! with Claude Rains
(clips from film) "Oh Dev, Dev" "I´m sorry to intrude on this tender scene" "I, I knew her before you did, loved her before you did. I wasn´t as lucky as you" "It wasn´t a hangover you had that day, you were sick then" "Yes, yes, I was sick" "What is it?" "Oh Dev" "What is it dear?, what´s wrong with you" "They´re poisoning me"
Cards: A fateful fascination charged with mounting danger! A mad adventure fraught with bold intrigue. Daringly directed by that master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock´s NOTORIOUS! An SRO Re-release.
Publicity Trailer (1)	0.52  (on laserdisc)
Voice: "Why are these keys more terrifying than a killers knife. See Alfred Hitchcock's thrilling drama of mystery and intrigue, NOTORIOUS! Gems in her hair, ice in her heart. She was a notorious woman of affairs."
(clips from film) "Anything else." "Nothing important, just a minor item that you may wanted for the record." "What is it ?" "You can add Sebastian's name to my list of playmates."
Voice: "He was an adventurous man of the world, guarded eyes, guarded lips, guarded secrets. Why did they risk their lives and love for this key. For the answer, see Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman in Notorious!
Card: NOTORIOUS!
Publicity Trailer (2)	0.49  (on laserdisc)
Voice: "Notorious, Notorious, Notorious. She was a notorious woman of many desires. He was an adventurous man of purpose, Their secret love swept them on to the brink of disaster.
(clips from film) "This is a very strange love affair." "Why?" "Maybe, the fact that you don't love me." "When I don't love you, I'll let you know." "You haven't said anything." "Action speak louder than words."
Voice: "See Notorious, produced by Alfred Hitchcock, master of suspense. For tense dramatic impact. See Notorious. Starring Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman in a story of danger and bold intrigue. See Notorious."
Card: NOTORIOUS!
Publicity Trailer (3)	0.14  (on laserdisc)
Voice: "Notorious. All she was, was all he wanted. Their love was a flame in danger sinister shadows. See Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock´s Notorious."
Card: NOTORIOUS!
33 THE PARADINE CASE		1947
Trailer and Re-release Trailer	1.39
Voice: "The Paradine Case."
Cards: The Paradine Case. Presenting the most distinguished cast of stars in screen history. The Paradine Case starring Gegory Peck, Ann Todd (of "The Seventh Veil"), Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan and Valli.
Voice: "What manner of woman is Mrs. Paradine. What is the truth about this woman around whom there raged such a violent storm of conflicting emotions."
(clips from film) "I intend that the whole world shall see her as I do, as a noble, selfsacrifising human being." "I know what I´m talking about. What I say is true. I know her. And I will tell you one thing more. I will tell you about Mrs. Paradine. She´s bad, bad to the bone." "I do pity her. Who needs pity more than a woman who´s sinned."
Voice: "But from Mrs. Paradine´s own lips, came unchecked confessions of infamy."
(clip from film) "I ran away with a man. Istanbul, Athens, Cairo." "He was much older of course, rich, he took advantage of your youth." "He was a married, respected. I took advantage of him."
Card: The Paradine Case. An SRO Release (Re-release).
34 ROPE				1948
M-G-M Trailer		2.24
Card: NEW YORK One Spring Afternoon.
(scene not in the film) David Kentley and his girlfriend, Janet, in Central Park discussing their relationship.
"I do want to, I just think we ought to wait until after you graduate." "I don´t." "It´s only a month." "Janet, a month." "Please." "Sorry. I personally consider us engaged as of now, congratulations." "David, no." "Look, you can say yes in a taxi, I have a 2.30 appointment and you´re..." "I´m staying right here." "Oh, afraid you´ll say yes." "I´ll see you tonight at Brandon´s party." "OK, you can say yes there just as well as in a taxi. Goodbye darling." "Bye."
James Stewart: "That´s the last time she ever saw him alive, and that´s the last time you´ll ever see him alive. What happened to David Kentley changed my life completely, and the lives of seven others. Janet Walker, Henry Kentley, the boy´s father, his aunt, Mrs. Atwater, his best friend, Kenneth Lawrence, the housekeeper, named Mrs. Wilson and the two who were responsible for everything, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan."
Cards: James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock´s ROPE!
(clip from film) "Cat and mouse, cat and mouse, which is the cat and which is the mouse."
Cards: With John Dall, Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, Dick Hogan and Joan Chandler. ROPE! Alfred Hitchcock´s most startling adventure in suspense...
(clip from film) "He´s got it, he knows, he knows." "Allright, take it easy, I´ll take care of it." "No you won´t, I´ll just as soon kill you as kill him."
Cards: ROPE! Alfred Hitchcock tells a story you will never forget! ROPE! Technicolor - A Transatlantic Pictures Production. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Release.
Warner Bros Trailer	2.04	(on SF Rush Video)
Card: NEW YORK One Spring Afternoon.
(scene not in the film) David Kentley and his girlfriend, Janet, in Central Park discussing their relationship.
"I do want to, I just think we ought to wait until after you graduate." "I don´t." "It´s only a month." "Janet, a month." "Please." "Sorry. I personally consider us engaged as of now, congratulations." "David, no." "Look, you can say yes in a taxi, I have a 2.30 appointment and you´re..." "I´m staying right here." "Oh, afraid you´ll say yes." "I´ll see you tonight at Brandon´s party." "OK, you can say yes there just as well as in a taxi. Goodbye darling." "Bye."
James Stewart: "That´s the last time she ever saw him alive, and that´s the last time you´ll ever see him alive. What happened to David Kentley changed my life completely, and the lives of seven others. Janet Walker, Henry Kentley, the boy´s father, his aunt, Mrs. Atwater, his best friend, Kenneth Lawrence, the housekeeper, named Mrs. Wilson and the two who were responsible for everything, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan."
Cards: James Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock´s ROPE! With John Dall, Farley Granger, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick, Edith Evanson, Dick Hogan and Joan Chandler. ROPE! Alfred Hitchcock´s First Technicolor Picture. ROPE! Alfred Hitchcock´s most startling adventure in suspense... ROPE! Alfred Hitchcock tells a story you will never forget! Presented by Warner Bros Pictures. ROPE!
35 UNDER CAPRICORN		1949
Trailer 		2.03
Cards: The suspense-magic of Hitchcock. An exciting cast of outstanding stars... Sweeping romance and drama on a violent new frontier. UNDER CAPRICORN.
Voice: "Under Capricorn starring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton."
Cards: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton.
(clips from film) "I hope you haven´t been given too much thought to what I said about Mr. Adare and her ladyship in her bedroom. I´m sure it wasn´t her fault. She wasn´t what you call, responsible at the time. I know she wasn´t because she had half her clothes off and didn´t seem to notice." "I wouldn´t go in there, Sam. I tell you she has had a triumph. You mustn´t spoil it." "Where ? I see, I´m not good enough to stand beside my wife when she´s with (a quality?)" "Don´t be rediculous, you´re not even dressed for a ball." "Sam, what a shock you gave me. Mr. Richard, may I present my husband. We were talking about horses. I was telling his excellency..." "That I was brought up in a stable. I heard you. My money is as good as the next mans. With the compliments of Mr. Samson Flusky, esquire, it will pay for my wife´s supper."
Card: UNDER CAPRICORN
Voice: "Under Capricorn, the story of a strange and fascinating woman and the two men in her life."
(clip from film) "You bloody murdering Jack."
Card: BERGMAN. Voice: "Bergman, beautiful, tortured."
(clip from film) "Sam, Sam!" "What´s the matter, what is it?" "She heard you." "You sent this woman here to kill me."
Card: UNDER CAPRICORN. Color by Technicolor. Transatlantic Pictures Production. A Balboa film distributors Release.

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