 The studio heads at Paramount prove more difficult to persuade, forcing Hitchcock to finance the film personally and use his "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" television crew (over at competitor Revue/Universal) to shoot the film, his last with Paramount.However, the pressures of the production, such as dealing with Geoffrey Shurlock of the Motion Picture Production Code, and Hitchcock's lecherous habits, such as when they confer with the female lead, Janet Leigh, annoy Alma.She begins a personal writing collaboration with Whitfield Cook on his screenplay at his beach house without Hitchcock's knowledge.