article_snippet.sent: Ackroyd goes into raptures about The Lodger, which starred Ivor Novello.
article_snippet.sent: Ackroyd valiantly tries to defend the director
article_snippet.sent: Through provocation and bullying, says Ackroyd, Hitchcock was being professional.
article_snippet.sent: Hands grasp a neck — strangulation is an embrace, for example, in Strangers On A Train or the shocking despatch of Anna Massey in Frenzy.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The actual biting is done by glove puppets,’ Ackroyd maintains.