Father-daughter tensions arise when a millionaire (Harker), suspecting his playgirl daughter's fiancé is a gold-digger, pretends the family fortune is gone. A bubbly comic parable built around Betty Balfour's effervescent energy, the film is an early example of Hitchcock's long-term fascination with the foibles of the filthy rich.
Set on the Isle of Man (but very evocatively shot in Cornwall), this Hitchcock melodrama charts the crisis that arises when a lawyer, best friend of a fisherman believed dead, acts on his love for the latter's girlfriend, unaware that reports of his demise were erroneous. In a sly study of secrec...
This early Alfred Hitchcock drama sees him again adapting a stage play; this time reworking Galsworthy's account of the increasingly bitter, even vicious battle for land between an aristocratic family (down to their last Rolls Royce) and a nouveau riche industrialist. With Edmund Gwenn in the fir...
Just as issues of trust and mistrust between men and women often fuelled Hitchcock's thrillers, so they informed most of his comedies. In this wry, episodic cautionary tale of a suburban couple fleeing the daily grind on a luxury cruise, the characters fall prey to different kinds of temptation.
