100 Mind-Blowing Hitchcock Facts

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen. The groundbreaking flushing took place right before Janet Leigh’s character’s iconic shower scene.

Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly button. He wasn’t born without a belly button, but Alfred Hitchcock lost his belly button due to multiple gastrointestinal surgeries.

The seagulls in the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds” (1963) were fed a mixture of wheat and whisky so they would stand around and not fly too much.

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller Psycho, the sound effects for the famous shower scene were created by repeatedly stabbing a casaba melon.

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