Directed by:
Alfred HitchcockScreenplay:
Alma RevilleCinematography:
Jack E. CoxCast:
Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander, Donald Calthrop, Una O'Connor, Violet Farebrother, Clare Greet (more)VOD (1)
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In Murder, Diana Baring is an actress who is caught standing over the corpse of a fellow actress. Even worse, she has amnesia and remembers nothing about the murder, or herself. Though she desperately tries to recall anything that can clear the fog from her mind, her amnesia is complete, as is the evidence against her. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die. Only one person believes she is innocent, but can he prove it in time to save her? (official distributor synopsis)
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At the beginning of 1930, Alfred Hitchcock was experienced in working with crime films (after the films The Logder and Blackmail) and was also already familiar with sound film. Murder! is an adaptation of the crime novel "Enter Sir John" (1928) by the authors Helen Simpson and Clemence Dane. Hitchcock collaborated with Helen Simpson many times, first on the dialogue for Sabotage and again choosing her as the author of the source material for the film Under Capricorn. Clemence Dane had a somewhat different career, but along with Helen they also wrote another crime story with an amateur investigator - "Re-enter Sir John" (1932). Murder! is a good film, and film historians love the scene with the internal monologue, while others can calmly follow the individual clues to uncover the culprit, whom the viewer does not know from the very beginning this time. The acting is dominated by Herbert Marshall, who already had one foot in Hollywood, the charming Norah Baring, and of course, Una O'Connor. The theme of suppressed homo(trans)sexuality is a topic for a separate debate, but it has been part of the analysis since at least the 1960s.
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