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Siskoid

Hitchcock's British talkies feel like lighter entertainment than the American films he would be best known for, with their quirky characters and fast dialog, but that's kind of why I like them. Case in point, Young and Innocent taps into Hitch's interest in "the wrong man", one accused of a murder he didn't commit and must now solve before the coppers do the lazy thing and send him to the headman. Hitchcock has claimed a mistrust of the police since childhood, and in these pictures it's less because of corruption than incompetence, although you might say they go hand in hand. Thankfully for our hero, the chief constable's daughter is on the case and the pair - plus a cute dog - drive around the English countryside trying to find a crucial clue. A fun runaround with romance thrown in and you won't believe where the car ends up (Hitchcock loves to balance people over the edge, doesn't he?). But the ending, well... The audience knows more than the heroes in this case, so it's no much of a mystery, and when the film reaches its maximum run time, the jig is up, almost anticlimactically. But it's a good time until the awkward minstrel show.

4 months 1 week ago

slovinkita

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12 years 9 months ago

Ebbywebby

Hey, not bad. More in the classic Hitchcock mode than expected -- the title suggests more of a romance. It's sporadically funny too. On the down side, there is some horrible use of miniatures, an orchestra performing in blackface and Hitchcock's usual cost-cutting, back-projection shots in car sequences. Oh yeah, and the film's basic premise doesn't make any sense because the police on the beach should have shrugged off the guy as a suspect as soon as they saw his body was not wet or sandy at all. Analyzing the footprints in the sand might have cleared him too.

2 months 1 week ago

Crentist852

Underrated Hitchcock. This film has an incredible ending and is worthy of checking out.

11 years 11 months ago