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Part One: Alfred Hitchcock: The Director Who Randomly Tortured People

Behind the Bastards

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Hitchcock's Fear of Fire

Alfred Hitchcock would be the modern Nathan for you or if you know previous he would be like uh you know what's that show with Aspen Kuchar? Oh uh punked right? Yeah yeah yeah it is that kind of thing. Now I do want to note that these weren't all people who had done something to offend him. He also fucked with his friends this way. One day he came into his dressing room after a performance to find a live adult horse sitting and presumably shitting in his dressing room. Elsie Randolph was an actress who worked with Hitchcock on a number of films. She came to trust him and at one point confided in him that she was absolutely

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