Which film gave Alfred Hitchcock his first solo directing credit?

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Master of suspense — Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock's talent as both filmmaker and storyteller is abundantly evident in a film catalog that includes *Dial M for Murder*, *Vertigo*, *Psycho*, and *The Birds*.

Alfred Hitchcock received his first solo directing credit for the 1925 melodrama The Pleasure Garden.1

While he had previously worked on the unfinished comedy Mrs. Peabody (also known as Number 13) and co-directed the 1923 film Always Tell Your Wife, he did not receive official credit for the latter. Following his solo debut, he went on to direct The Mountain Eagle (1926) and later achieved significant critical recognition with The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927), which is often cited as his first "real" work.1