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Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock confirmed the old story that his father, a London greengrocer, sent him with a note to the local chief of police when he was a child. After reading the note, the chief had him locked in a jail cell for five minutes, fi- nally letting him out with the warning “That’s what we do to naughty boys.” This incident instilled in him a morbid fear of the police. The reason he never learned to drive, he revealed, is “the simple fact that if you don’t drive a car, you can’t get a tick- et.” Such personal fears, apparent in his films, can also be at- tributed to the cruel punishments he suffered at the Jesuit school he attended. See hitchcockian ending. |