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Interviews
Hitchcock: "Never mess about with a dead body -- you may be one..."
Alfred Hitchcock waited in a deep chair by the window, like a judge in chambers preparing for a last word with a strangler. The pale morning sunlight struggled into the room and collapsed at his feet. It was a grey…