Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] early in the film boarding a train carrying a double bass fiddle as Guy gets off the train (see also his cameo in The Paradine Case (1947)). Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously to keep the price down, and got them for just $7,500. Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author. The stunt where the man crawled under ...[Read Story ]