Hitchcock - The Man Who Knew Too Much

Rheum put a smoke bomb under Hitch's car after being repeatedly pranked by the director. Hitchcock never tried anything on me again. He respected you if you hit back. If you didn't he'd have another go. In one 1972 interview he insisted his pranks were not meant to harm or denigrate their victims. "That's a dark man and this all counts as light compared to what we are slowly building towards"