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Answer: Bus

In "North by Northwest" he's the man who just misses the bus towards the end of the opening credits. In "To Catch a Thief" he's sitting to the left of John Robie, who has just escaped police questioning, about 10 minutes into the movie. Both movies star Cary Grant.

"North by Northwest" is a mistaken identity movie. Advertising executive Roger Thornhill is kidnapped when he's mistaken for another man. This puts him in the middle of an espionage case, and the prime suspect in a murder. While trying to clear his name, Thornhill is chased by a crop duster and the climactic scene occurs on Mount Rushmore.

"To Catch a Thief" takes place on the Riviera. John Robie is a retired burglar known as the Cat, but a recent outbreak of jewel thefts leads the public to believe he's returned to work. Robie realizes the only way to clear his name is to catch the actual thief.

Cary Grant was born Archibald

Answer: Dial M for Murder

Hitchcock appears in one of the class reunion photos hanging on the wall about 13 minutes into the film.

"Dial M for Murder", released in 1954, starred Grace Kelly and Ray Milland and was based on a stage play by Frederick Knott. Milland plays Tony Wendice who hires/blackmails an old acquaintance to kill his wife, played by Kelly. In the struggle, she kills her assailant. The day before her scheduled execution, her lover, played by Robert Cummings, tries to clear her name.

The movie was remade in 1998 as "A Perfect Murder" starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas.

Answer: Frenzy

Hitchcock's appearance is early in the film. He's wearing a bowler hat and the only member of the audience who does not appear to be listening to the speaker, at least until someone notices a nude body floating in the river.

In "Frenzy", Richard Blaney is suspected of being the Necktie Killer, especially after his ex-wife becomes one of the victims. He's convicted, even though his friend Robert Rusk is the real murderer. Blaney injures himself in prison and escapes while being treated in an attempt to lead the police to Rusk - an attempt which nearly backfires when the police find Blaney standing over the corpse of another woman.

"Frenzy" combines serial murder with the black humor of truly frightful gourmet meals served to the police detective by his wife. It was based on the novel "Goodbye PIccadilly, Farewell Liecester Square."

Answer: Double Bass

Hitchcock appears about 10 minutes into the film. "Strangers on a Train" was based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith and and Raymond Chandler wrote an early draft of the screenplay. Although very little of his work appears in the final movie, Chandler got a credit for the screenplay.

Tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his wife Miriam so that he can remarry, but his wife refuses to consent. Bruno Anthony approaches Haines on the titular train with a proposition - kill my mother and I'll kill your wife. Haines rejects the plan, but Anthony follows through on the plot. When Haines refuses to kill Mrs. Anthony, Bruno tries to frame the tennis player for Miriam's murder.

Answer: Shadow of a Doubt

Hitchcock appears about 15 minutes into the movie, as a passenger on the Santa Rosa-bound train which carries Uncle Charlie. "Shadow of a Doubt" was reportedly Hitchcock's favorite of his films. In the movie, Charlie Newton is initially thrilled when her favorite Uncle Charlie comes to visit. Her mother's younger brother is charming and generous - and suspected of being the Merry Widow Murderer. Over the course of the movie, Charlie comes to doubt her uncle's innocence, and risks becoming his next victim.

Answer: Violin

"Spellbound" combines the murder in retrospect and amnesiac hero formats. When the head of a mental hospital in Vermont retires, his replacement is Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) who falls in love with colleague Dr. Constance Peterson (Ingrid Bergman). Peterson soon finds out that Edwardes is an imposter, and possibly a murderer.

When Hitchcock appears (around the 37 minute mark), Dr. Peterson is waiting for Dr. Edwardes. He recoveries his memory (and his name - John Ballantyne) after a hypnosis-induced dream so bizarre, Salvador Dali designed it.

Answer: The 39 Steps

Hitchcock's cameo is about 6 minutes into the movie. You can see him littering as Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) and doomed spy Annabella Smith (Lucie Mannheim) are leaving the theater where they saw "Mr. Memory" perform feats of, well, memory. Annabella is a spy who's uncovered a plot against Britain.

When she's murdered, Hannay becomes a suspect and must find the mastermind to save both himself and his country.

Answer: Winding a clock

Laid up with a broken leg, photographer L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) amuses himself by observing the people in neighboring apartments. He and his girlfriend Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) become convinced that one neighbor has murdered his wife and disposed of the body.

Hitchcock can be seen winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment about 25 minutes into the film. A 1998 remake of "Rear Window" starred Christopher Reeve.

Answer: Dogs

He's walking two white Sealyham terriers when he passes Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) as she enters a pet store to buy a myna bird at the start of the movie. There's no villain in "The Birds" and not much of a plot. After being confronted by Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a pet store, Melanie decides to visit him in his coastal home town. Over the course of the next few days, birds begin to attack people for no reason.

The movie was based on a short story by Daphne du Maurier whose novel, "Rebecca", was the basis for the only Hitchcock movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Answer: As a silhouette outside the register of births and deaths

Hitchcock's final cameo occurs about 38 minutes into "Family Plot". The movie follows a fake psychic on her search for a missing heir who, in turn, has become a jewel thief and kidnapper. When she finds him, she also finds his most recent victim - and almost becomes one herself.

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