Rich and Strange

MOVIE #1,114 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.18.23 EVERY OTHER FRIDAY I’M REVIEWING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. THIS IS TGI-HITCHOCK! We’re still in the mock of A.H.’s ultra-prolific early talkie period, his 11th film made between 1928 and 1931. Much like how his silent era movies started to weigh on me with their monotony, I am feeling bogged down by these mostly forgettable entries. This is a departure from recent efforts in that there’s briefer dialogue segments shot in the studio cut with intertitles (intertitles?! come on, man!) and soundtrack-laden, almost documentary style footage of the mechanisms of a giant cruise ship. There’s also A LOT of infidelity. It’s pretty much the whole movie. Also: boat. And: cultural insensitivity.

But this shit blew your mind in the early 30s no doubt…


And by that I mean: LOBSTER MAYONNAISE. I'm both repulsed and intrigued.

Also, I liked how stupid it was when the cheating wife drew a little stick figure on this dude’s photo and then the dude pulled it out later and was like “this could be us, girl” LOL…

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⫷ MOVIE #1,113 - (YOU ARE HERE) - MOVIE #1,115 ⫸

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Rich and Strange, released in the United States as East of Shanghai, is a 1931 British romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. The film was adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Val Valentine from the 1930 novel by Dale Collins. The title is an allusion to words of Ariel's song "Full fathom five" in Shakespeare's The Tempest. It was released on December 10, 1931.