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Early Hitchcock, "Stage Fright," packs plenty of mystery

Posted by tinear on December 7, 2010 at 09:04:35:
and, yes, fright.
Marlene Dietrich at her most vampish (and that's saying a lot: Madonna is like a little girl who found her mother's lipstick in comparison), Jane Wyman at her most innocent, and Alastair Sims stealing scenes as only he could: what a superb entertainment. Richard Todd, as unbearably good-looking as his American counterpart, Robert Taylor, is more than adequate as the love interest of both those women.
A distraught Dietrich in a blood-stained dress bursts in on her lover, innocently involving him by one simple request. As is usual with Hitch, nothing is as it seems. Though not one of his best, it moves along nicely and features several convoluted plot twists involving the theater, actors, and reinforcing that "the world is but a stage."
The climax really is one of his best and that is high praise.