The 1950s saw Hitchcock take more control of his work as he directed pictures for an assortment of studios.
More Stewart-Hitchcock collaborations followed, including a remake of Hitchcock’s own The Man Who Knew Too Much, the paranoid voyeur drama Rear Window, and the classic Vertigo, which tied madness, mistaken identity, obsession, and paranoia together in one of the most “Hitchcockian” movies extant. The 1950s saw Hitchcock take more control of his work as he directed pictures for an assortment of studios. In addition to the Stewart pictures, he made To Catch a Thief with Grant and Grace Kelly; Kelly also starred in Rear Window and in the experimental Dial M For Murder, which was filmed in 3D (though it was not released in that format until a brief run in the 1980s).