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Hitchcock Chronology: Robert F. Boyle

Entries in the Hitchcock Chronology relating to Robert F. Boyle...

1941

December

  • 7th - The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the US entry into World War II allows Hitchcock to be more explicit about the war as he completes the pre-production of his new film, Saboteur. The director is in a meeting with Robert F. Boyle when they hear news of the attack.[1][2]

1958

September

  • 16th - Filming at Mount Rushmore begins and is completed the following day. With shooting limited to the parking lot, the park cafeteria and an adjoining terrace, much of the final footage for North by Northwest's iconic climax will be completed back at the MGM studios on sets designed by Robert Boyle.

2010

August

  • 2nd - Art director and production designer Robert F. Boyle, who worked with Hitchcock on Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, North by Northwest, The Birds and Marnie, dies aged 100.

References

  1. Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003) by Patrick McGilligan, page 294
  2. American Cinematographer (1993) - Saboteur: Hitchcock Set Free