 | MOVIE #1,292 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 12.22.23 EVERY OTHER FRIDAY I’M REVIEWING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. THIS IS TGI-HITCHOCK! We still haven't turned a corner in terms of consistent quality (maybe we never will?). Perhaps, this is partly on me as a viewer: I could do a better job finding an in-road into these old movies that don't initially grab me. But this one felt slight. The falsely accused criminal and his love interest hit it off right away so on top of the mystery being a nonstarter, there's nothing interesting with their relationship like is present in The 39 Steps, which is the vibe this is most reminiscent of on the surface. Hitchcock does ratchet up the visual stylings however. The film's most notorious for this neat crane longshot into extreme close-up… |
(We don't need to talk about the blackface 😬)
Hitchcock also employs some fantastic back projections and miniature work. Haven't seen anything like this before from ole Al…
And this scene in an abandoned mine is ambitious…
Unfortunately, these moments don't add up, but it's nevertheless a pleasant, quick watch. nova pilbeam,derrick de marney,percy marmont,edward rigby,mary clare,john longden
CHRONOLOGICALLY
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⫷ MOVIE #1,291 - (YOU ARE HERE) - MOVIE #1,293 ⫸
Young and Innocent, released in the US as The Girl Was Young, is a 1937 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney. Based on the 1936 novel A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey, the film is about a young man on the run from a murder charge who enlists the help of a woman who must put herself at risk for his cause. An elaborately staged crane shot Hitchcock devised, which appears towards the end of the film, identifies the real murderer. It was released on November 1, 1937.
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