Young and Innocent (1937)
Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Pen Tennyson
- Alma Reville
- Josephine Tey
- Charles Bennett
- Edwin Greenwood
- Anthony Armstrong
- Gerald Savory
Rating: 6.6/10 by 229 users
Alternative Title:
The Girl Was Young - US
Innocència i joventut - ES
だいさんとうぼうしゃ - JP
年轻姑娘 - CN
På farliga vägar - SE
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 23 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: countryside, based on novel or book, country house, aunt niece relationship, birthday party, belt, murder, raincoat, 1930s, on the lam, manhunt, father daughter relationship, innocent man, eye blinking, nervous twitch, wrongly accused
Now here's a question - whatever did happen to Nova Pilbeam? She is really good in this gentle little romantic thriller from Alfred Hitchcock. A film star is murdered by her estranged husband after he gets fed up with all her affairs. Her body is found on the beach by one of her beaux "Robert Tisdall" (Derrick de Marney). He goes to fetch the police but is seen running from the crime and soon it is he that the police are searching for. It's at this point that it all gets a little too slapstick; he is caught; then lots of mix-ups and police incompetence before he eventually embarks on a mission to prove his innocence with the help of the aforementioned 18-year-old Pilbeam. It's not one of Hitchcock's better films but is suspenseful and tense enough at times - if somewhat let down by the ending - enough to pass 80 minutes, at any rate.
