The 1946 scene Alfred Hitchcock forced his actors to shoot: “I don’t care how you feel”While standing as a British heavyweight of 20th-century cinema, Alfred Hitchcock was never an ‘actor’s director.’ Hitchcock was old school in the truest sense of the word, shaped by silent cinema and rising through the very highest peaks of Hollywood as filmland’s premier auteur. “As a matter of fact, the actors hated doing it,” Hitchcock quipped. Notorious’ kiss is certainly a masterwork of cinema and a testament to his filmic genius. It’s all masterful stuff from Hitchcock, but actor welfare played no part.