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

Behind the Bastards

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The Dark Side of Genius

Alfred Rheum was an assistant cameraman on one of Hitchcock's productions. The rest of the crew found their co-worker weeping ashamed badly dehydrated and surrounded by a white pool of his own diarrhea in the middle of the room. He apparently considered most people a threat because they were better looking or intelligent, better educated, more socially acceptable than himself. By thus subjugating those he resented for whatever reason,. perhaps he felt he was bringing them to the level on which he always lived.

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