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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd
Genre: Thriller Suspense
Length:1h 50min
Synopsis: A young budding actress tries to help her friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
Review: This is an interesting Hitchcock film. It's different and not like his later 1950s thrillers that are so well known. This is more like his earlier British films. This isn't a tension filled thriller, it's more of a lighter study of acting and stage theater, all done with a cleverness to it.
But I never really connected to the film...it starts off with a car chase through the streets of London and then there's a long flash back scene, then back to real time and Jane Wyman is risking jail by helping her love interest, Richard Todd escape. But the film never shows me why she would take such a risk, I needed more back story on her character and relationship with the accused man for me to buy into it.
I'm not much of a fan of twisty-turning who-done-it murder mystery...but if you are, you should like this film as it's cleverly done, and that's all I can say as I don't want to ruin the story.
I really liked Jane Wyman in this, she's an underrated actresses. And Marlene Dietrich is excellent too. In fact the entire cast was excellent, even Hitchcock's own daughter who has a small role as Chubby Bannister was quite good.
Stage Fright (1950)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd
Genre: Thriller Suspense
Length:1h 50min
Synopsis: A young budding actress tries to help her friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
Review: This is an interesting Hitchcock film. It's different and not like his later 1950s thrillers that are so well known. This is more like his earlier British films. This isn't a tension filled thriller, it's more of a lighter study of acting and stage theater, all done with a cleverness to it.
But I never really connected to the film...it starts off with a car chase through the streets of London and then there's a long flash back scene, then back to real time and Jane Wyman is risking jail by helping her love interest, Richard Todd escape. But the film never shows me why she would take such a risk, I needed more back story on her character and relationship with the accused man for me to buy into it.
I'm not much of a fan of twisty-turning who-done-it murder mystery...but if you are, you should like this film as it's cleverly done, and that's all I can say as I don't want to ruin the story.
I really liked Jane Wyman in this, she's an underrated actresses. And Marlene Dietrich is excellent too. In fact the entire cast was excellent, even Hitchcock's own daughter who has a small role as Chubby Bannister was quite good.