Alfred Hitchcock. As well as his notable obsession with blonde females being in distress...
...was indeed the 'Master of Suspense' of his time. He deftly blended sex, suspense and humour. An early example of Hitchcock's technical virtuosity was his creation of "subjective sound" for 'Blackmail' (1929), his first sound film. In this story of a woman who stabs an artist to death when he tries to seduce her, Hitchcock emphasized the young woman's anxiety by gradually distorting all but one word "knife" of a neighbor's dialogue the morning after the killing. Here and in 'Murder!' (1930), Hitchcock first made explicit the link between sex and violence.
My favourite Hitchcock film is undoubtably 'Vertigo' (1958) starring James Stewart and Kim Novak.
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