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Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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From Time Out Film Guide
Not top-notch Hitchcock, but engrossing enough. At the centre is another of his odd couples: an innocent man accused of murder and on the run (de Marney), and the young daughter of a policeman (18-year-old Pilbeam) who finds herself helping him along the way. Both leads are very mannered: de Marney has a most odd whine of a voice, and Pilbeam is too gawky, too jolly-hockey-sticks (though she's fine in other films). So their parts, and their relationship, aren't as believable as they might be, with the result that most of the film is a bit loose. But there are at least two splendid sequences, with menace and suspense hovering, in typical Hitchcock fashion, over innocent amusements: first a children's party, and finally a hotel thé-dansant, where everything finally jells. (From the novel by Josephine Tey.Author: GB
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Cast & crew
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Edward Black
Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, George Curzon, Mary Clare, John Longden, Basil Radford full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 82 mins
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