Almost all of the films from Hitchcock’s American period, which began in 1939, are, for me, deeply dissatisfying. While those he had made in England – such as The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) – display an unselfconscious storytelling style, his American films seem to lean too heavily on the director’s unfortunate reputation as a dirty old man, and his fetishised ideal of the perfect blonde, such as Grace Kelly, or Tippi Hedren. Some I find downright repellent, Psycho (1960) above
The first of seven races at Wexford on Sunday begins at 1.01pm and the card features the Jim And Kay Whitty Memorial Handicap Chase which sees The Short Go attempting to back up last month’s success at Clonmel for trainer Henry de Bromhead and jockey Rachael Blackmore.