The first two Transatlantic films, Hitchcock's Rope (1948) and Under Capricorn (1949), both released in the US by Warner Bros., had poor box office returns.
Rope was banned in several US cities due to the themes of homosexuality,[citation needed] and Under Capricorn was overshadowed by Ingrid Bergman's extramarital affair with director Roberto Rossellini.
[citation needed] A third Hitchcock film, Stage Fright (1950) filmed on location in London, was a Transatlantic Pictures production, even though the copyrights are filed directly through Warner Bros. (as part of Warner Bros. financing and distribution deal).
In early 1953, Hitchcock and Bernstein planned to film the 1948 David Duncan novel The Bramble Bush as a Transatlantic release.
[6] Transatlantic Pictures was also the original company intended to produce the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents, when first announced in 1954; Hitchcock subsequently formed another unit, Shamley Productions, to produce the show.