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In Reply to: RE: Hitchcock, Frenzy 1972 - Spoilers posted by Brian A on July 26, 2009 at 23:37:59
A very good film but not up to the master's usual standards. Once again it's the wrong man getting blamed for the crime....a plot he did better in "North By Northwest" and "The Wrong Man." Still, it's a better film than most other directors could have managed. It still has that Hitchcock sense of style and humor that many have imitated but none matched.
The film reminds me of one of his 30s British films updated for 1970s sensibilities.
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It was the end of his life.
I think he slept a lot on the film set it is reported.
What also was not to my taste was the lack of erotism on this one as it was crude and not subtil at all-
70īs Hitch should have let it out.
I was 19 or 20 when I saw it....e.g. the potato scene in the truck (as mentioned above) is priceless.
This film always seemed to suffer from a slight "out of dateness" - it surely would have had more resonance for the hero had it been set in the 50s. And it also seemed slightly miscast in some roles to me.
But I truly enjoy several of the set pieces - including the poor inspector's mounting desire for a plain cooked meal - and especially Barry Foster's performance as the villain. I miss him. It is a somewhat nasty little movie in spots, but you can tell it was made by a master.
And as you say, even not quite top flight Hitchcolc is still better than 90% of anything out there nowdays.
Edits: 07/27/09
when the woman realizes she's in the killer's clutches--- that pan to the outside is CLASSIC!
Fairly shocking that was for its time, and still damned unsettling.
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