Hitchcock's unfilmed films

The following are projects that were either announced as being Hitchcock productions (or were linked to him) but never got off the ground, or projects that failed to get past the pre-production stage.

The years shown indicate when the project was announced or was in pre-production.

Titled Projects

• The Bat (1940)
• The Blind Man (early 1960s)
• The Bramble Bush (1952–53)
• Breakdown (1955) — initially announced as a feature film, it was instead adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• Bulldog Drummond (1933)
• Dark Duty (1948 & 1952)
• The Day Christ Died (1960)
• Derby Day (1935–38)
• Escape (1939)
• False Witness (1937–38) — also known as Perjury
• Flamingo Feather (1955–56)
• The Flashing Stream (1939)
• Frenchman's Creek (1941)
• Good Night, Nurse! (1922)
• Greenmantle
• Hamlet (1945–46)
• Huntingtower (1926)
• Intermezzo (1939)
• Kaleidoscope (mid to late 1960s) — also known as Frenzy
• The Keys of the Kingdom (1943)
• King Lear (1948)
• The Last Days of Hitler (1947)
• Life of a City
• The Life of Keir Hardie (1946)
• London Symphony (1935)
• Lorna Doone (late 1940s)
• Malice Aforethought
• The Man at Six (1930)
• Mary Rose
• No Bail for the Judge (mid 1950s to 1959)
• Operation Annie (1946)
• The Park (~1930)
• Perjury (1937–38) — also known as False Witness
• The Queen and the Rebels
• R.R.R.R.
• Road House (1934)
• The Short Night (1968–70 and 1977–79)
• The Spider and the Fly (1948)
• Tambourine (1929)
• The Three Hostages (1964)
• Titanic (1938–39)
• Trap for a Solitary Man (1960)
• The Turn of the Screw (1946)
• Village of Stars (1960)
• We, the Accused
• Weep No More (1947)
• A Woman's Face (1941)
• The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1957)
• Zero Minus Ten (1951)

Untitled Projects

• Covent Garden Opera Story
• untitled Edgar Wallace project (1939)
• untitled Gene Kelly project (1941)

Other Projects

• In September 1959, novelist Ian Fleming telegrammed Eric Ambler asking if he thought Hitchcock would be interested in directing the first James Bond film.

Links

• Wikipedia: List of unproduced Hitchcock projects