Alfred Hitchcock turned down the chance to direct the drama about a mysterious imposter posing as the Grand Duchess. Or is she an imposter?.

Turned down the chance to make the film version of Maxwell Anderson's hit Broadway play about a monstrous little girl and her mother.

Hitchcock turned down the chance to acquire Ian Fleming's 1953 novel featuring James Bond. the novel was done as a film for TV in 1954, as a spoof movie in 1967 and, again, this time as a more serious Bond adventure in 2006.

Producer Walter Wanger had Alfred Hitchcock in mind to direct the film project which Wanger hoped would emphasize the suspense elements of the tale.

Alfred Hitchcock wasn't tempted enough by Ira Levin's 1978 hit stage thriller to make the movie version. Hitchcock screenwriter Jay Presson Allen adapted the play for movies.

Turned down the chance to acquire the screen rights to William Peter Blatty's novel and also turned down the chance to direct the film when another producer bought the rights to the property.

In the '40s, the director considered a modern-day version of Shakespeare's classic play with Cary Grant as his star. the whole idea got dropped for many reasons.

The master director turned down the offer for him to direct the movie version of Charlotte Bronte's classic Gothic novel.

Hitchcock liked the A.J. Cronin novel about a young priest sent to establish a Catholic parish in China, but plans for him to direct the movie version in the '40s fell through.

In the '40s, Hitchcock bought the remake rights to the Silent film that helped put him on the map but could never convince a studio to let him remake the film in color.

James Stewart and the studio failed to interest Hitchcock in directing this thriller from Nevil Shute's novel about an aeronautical engineer who believes the crowded plane he is on will fall apart during its flight.

Turned down the chance to acquire Ira Levin's novel and, later, to direct the film version.

The great director spent several years late in his life developing with a number of screenwriters a romantic spy thriller set in Finland involving a dangerous spy, a man sent to kill him, and the spy's beautiful wife.

Passed on directing the movie version of Anthony Shaffer's ingenious hit play.

The great director couldn't work up sufficient enthusiasm for this tale of a handicapped young woman in a turn-of-the-century New England beset by a serial killer who preys on handicapped women.

One of the last projects considered by director Alfred Hitchcock was based on the gritty Elmore Leonard novel about a flawed hero up to his neck in criminals and getting caught up with a sad blonde in distress.

Offered the screen rights to the Broadway hit play by Frederick Knott, who also wrote "Dial 'M' For Murder" previously made into a film by Hitchcock.

When producer William Frye considered taking an option on the William Farrell novel in 1960, he and his friend, Bette Davis tried to get Hitchcock interested in directing. He declined, as he was busy promoting "Psycho" and trying to develop "The Birds" into a screenplay.

Hitchcock, under contract to producer David O. Selznick, wanted to be loaned out to MGM the dark tale of a scarred woman trying to overcome her troubled past.

Hitchcock was originally going to direct but chose to make North By Northwest instead.