Production Year: 1972 - Thriller - Director: Alfred Hitchcock - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Bernard Cribbins, Vivien Merchant more
Advantages: Splendid return to form for Hitchcock Disadvantages: Occasionally feels like a film out of step with the 70's
Since 1969 Hitchcock had been in the relative wilderness, attempting to launch new projects without much success. 'Marnie', 'Torn Curtain' and 'Topaz' had all failed to ring at the box office and more significantly with the critics, 1972 saw Hitchcock return to England, and embark on a low key thriller for Universal.
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This is one of Hitchcock’s more modern efforts made in 1972.
The film is set in London and is concerned with the exploits of a serial murderer. This guy, Twiss, is played by Barry Foster (he of Van der Valk fame).
Twiss is the ‘Necktie Murderer’ (he always strangles his victims with a tie) but the main character in the film played by John Finch manages to get arrested and sent down for the murders. Both his ex-wife and his ...
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Frenzy [DVD] [1972]
By the time Alfred Hitchcock's second-to-last picture came out in 1972, the censorship ... more
restrictions under which he had laboured during his long career had eased up. Now he could give full sway to his lurid fantasies, and that may explain whyFrenzyis th...
Frenzy [DVD] [1972]
By the time Alfred Hitchcock's second-to-last picture came out in 1972, the censorship ... more
restrictions under which he had laboured during his long career had eased up. Now he could give full sway to his lurid fantasies, and that may explain whyFrenzyis th...
Frenzy (Hitchcock) DVD
Digitally Remastered. In modern-day London a sex criminal known as the Necktie Murderer ... more
has the police on alert and in typical Hitchcock fashion their trail is leading to an innocent man who must now elude the law and prove his innocence by findin...
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