Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] early in the film sitting in a hotel lobby with a baby on his knee. The scene where Gromek is killed was written to show how difficult it really can be to kill a man. Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall did extensive (uncredited) rewrites on the script. 'Herrmann, Bernard' wrote the original score, but Universal Pictures executives convinced Hitchcock that they needed a more upbeat score. Hitchcock and Herrmann had a major disagreement, the score was dr ...[Read Story ]