| RATING: | 100% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Despite not being a great dramatist or superlative artist, Hitchcock was a superb plot-driven storyteller whose mastery of film technique and editing brilliance created engrossing thrillers like this. This one utilizes a common plot device in the great man's work of a man unjustly accused of murder out to prove his innocence. the deftly handled sexual humor always bring a chuckle and the fact that he started his career when films were silent shows through in his ability to make telling plot points without resorting to dialogue. A behaviorist/determinist film director largely uninterested in the psychological motivations of his characters; making him cinema's greatest entertainer.
Robert DONAT is suitably dashing and Madeleine CARROLL appropriately beautiful in this astonishing template for all the couple-on-the-run movies you have ever seen since (eg The Bourne Identity). What a pity no filmmaker today comes anywhere close to duplicating the suspense and the adroit comedy (that does not overwhelm the story) of this masterpiece.
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