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Takashi Fujimura's Thesis: Hitchcock-Hawksism

Hitchcock Hat Chart

Titles of films in which the protagonist of a movement involving being caught up in something removes their hat are highlighted in blue.

●"THE PLEASURE GARDEN"** (1925): Men remove their hats.

●"DOWMHILL"((1927): Student Iva Novello's father removes his hat in front of his best friend Robin Irving's sister. Novello and Irving remove their hats when they enter a general store.

●"THE RING"(1927): Ian Hunter removes his hat upon his first meeting with Lillian Hall-Davies. Carl Brisson wears his hat at a party after a skirmish, but removes it when he enters his house.

●"The Farmer's Wife" (1928): Farmer Jameson Thomas removes his hat in three instances: ① when the first woman dismounts from her horse, ② when he enters the second woman's house, and ③ in front of a woman at a bar.

●"CHANPAGNE" (1928): His lover, Jean Bardine, removes her hat when she enters Betty Bolfer's room while she is kneading bread.

● "The Manxman" (1928): Carl Brisson removes his hat when his daughter, Annie Ondra, looks out the second-floor window. Malcolm Keane also removes his hat when he hears the news of Brisson's death in a bar.

● "BLACKMAIL" (1929): A fellow detective of John Longden's character removes his hat to Annie Ondra at the beginning of the film. Hitchcock, who also appears in the film, gets mad when a child pulls down the brim of his hat. The blackmailer Donald Carlthrop removes his hat to Annie Ondra's mother, Sarah Allgood.

● "MURDER!" (1930): Herbert Marshall removes his hat when parting ways with a couple in front of the constable's house. Edward Chapman removes his hat as he enters a room in the constable's house.

● "THE SKIN GAME" (1931): Men remove their hats when they enter a house. At the beginning, a young man in a car removes his hat to a girl riding a horse. A father removes his hat in front of an auction.

● "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH" (1934): Enemy sniper Frank Vosper removes his hat when entering the dentist's office. Leslie Banks and Hugh Wakefield remove their hats when entering the church.

● "SECRET AGENT"　① John Gielgud touches the brim of his hat to greet Percy Marmont. He removes his hat when kissing Madeleine Carroll. He removes his hat when he reunites with Carroll across the train station fence and kisses her again. ② Peter Lorre removes his hat in the church. He removes his hat when sitting at the festival table. ③ Robert Young removes his hat when he meets Carroll in the hotel lobby towards the end.

●"SABOTAGE" (1936)　Oscar Homolka removes his hat when entering the house. Detective John Roder removes his hat once in front of Sylvia Sidney (Oscar Homolka is a "first-time offender" of the Skill movement's sabotage activities).

●"Young and Innocent" (1937): The vagrant Edward Rigby removes his hat when he meets Nova Pilbeam at a hotel. He also removes his hat when he enters a restaurant.

●"JAMAICA INN "(1939): The aristocrat Charles Laughton removes his hat when he meets Maureen O'Hara.

●"Revecca" (1940): The aristocrat Laurence Olivier removes his hat in a private room at a restaurant. He often owns a hat.

●"Foreign Correspondent" (1940) Joel McCrea's Hat History: ① Loses it on a ship. ② Has already replaced his hat on the train, but buys another one later. ③ Forgets it in a taxi. ④ It's blown away by the wind near a windmill. ⑤ Wears it when leaving the hotel, but takes it off at Laraine Day's house. Also, he greets the lady of the house by touching the brim of his hat on the stairs where the assassination took place in the Netherlands (if touching the brim of the hat is considered a ingrained movement, then this scene should be included).

● "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (1941): He takes off his hat twice when his lawyer husband, Robert Montgomery, enters the office. He also takes off his hat in a restaurant.

● "Suspension" (1941): His playboy husband, Cary Grant, touches the brim of his hat when the women appear and leave in the scene where everyone is taking a group photo at the beginning.

● "Shadow of a Doubt (1943): Criminal Joseph Cotten removes his hat when he reunites with his sister Patricia Collinge. He removes his hat when he meets the widow at the bank. He removes his hat to the people seeing him off on the train platform. Detective Macdonald Kelly removes his hat when he first meets Teresa Wright. He removes his hat to Teresa Wright when she comes out of the church midway through the film.

●"Spellbound"(1945): The hotel detective removes his hat next to Bergman. The detectives also remove their hats when they enter the house. Gregory Peck does not make the gesture of removing his hat.

●"Notorious"(1946): FBI agent Cary Grant removes his hat when he partes ways with Bergman after their first conversation on the bench. Claude Rains, the enemy spy, removes his hat when he returns home.

●"The Paradine CASE"(1947): Lawyer Gregory Peck has already removed his hat during his first meeting with defendant Alida Valli. He removes it again when he enters the country house. Lawyer Charles Coburn removes his hat at the police station during his first meeting with Alida Valli.

●"UNDER CAPRICORN" (1949): Joseph Cotten wears a hat but does not remove it. The aristocrat Michael Wilding removes his hat.

●"STAGE FRIGHT" (1950): Actor Jane Wyman removes her hat upon returning home. Wyman's father, Astaire Simm, removes his hat several times, including when he meets a detective at his wife's house.

●"I Confess"(1952): Father Montgomery Clift does not wear a hat. He wears one in the flashback lawn scene. Karl Malden removes his hat in the final scene.

●"DIAL M FOR MURDER"(1954) Criminal Ray Milland: Does not wear a hat. Detective John Williams: Removes his hat twice upon arrival. Mistress Robert Cummings: Removes his hat once upon arrival.

●"The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956): Father James Stewart removes his hat upon entering church.

●"The Wrong Man" (1957): Henry Fonda removes his hat in the law office.

●"The Trouble with Harry" (1956): Captain Edmund O'Brien removes his hat multiple times upon entering the house. Sheriff Royal Dano also removes his hat.

●"Sycho" (1960): Detective Martin Balsam has already removed his hat upon entering the mansion. However, the shot of him removing it does not exist.