Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was a famous and possibly argued greatest English film director. He was born on the 13th August 1899 and died on the 29th April 1980. He worked for a short time in engineering before entering the film industry in 1920. He went to Hollywood in 1939 where his first American film, Rebecca won an award. Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense. Hitchcock built some of his most suspenseful films around what he called "˜The McGuffin' which was, in effect, nothing. It made you believe thee was a side story and it takes you away from what the real story. Over the years, the McGuffin has come to have a description formalized as: "A device or plot element that catches the viewer's attention or drives the plot. It is generally something that every character is concerned with.' The McGuffin is essentially something that the entire story is built around and yet has no real relevance."
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