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.
Assigned a creaky play about a tramp and a cop meeting over a corpse in a disused house, Alfred Hitchcock threw in whatever he could: Cockney comedy, proto-noir lighting effects, pre-39 Steps bondage for the hero and heroine, and a chase to end all chases with a runaway train, a Green Line bus an...
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...
Hitchcock was worried that the stage roots of The Farmer's Wife (a hugely popular play by Eden Philpotts) might show through in his film adaptation. It was a needless worry. This semi-comic story of a widowed farmer's attempts to find himself a new wife is shot, as François Truffaut observed, 'li...
