Young and Innocent (1937): A Controversial Classic?
I think this early Hitchcock film (about a police commissioner's daughter who runs off with the man who her father is trying to arrest because she believes he's innocent) is certainly on of his best,...
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Found a nice bio of star Nora Pilbeam at WICKED LADY, which says this bit about Young and Innocent: Due to overexpansion and the inability to pentrate the American market, Gaumont British collapsed in...
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This is a great little thriller. I don't know how much actual "controversy" there is about it though. It used to play on TV all the time back in the 1980s, and it's widely available on public domain...
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I've always liked YOUNG AND INNOCENT but don't think it was ever considered controversial or kept out of circulation because of the blackface. If it got less play over the years than the other...
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Too bad. I like Derrick DeMarney in the movie as well, he's an appealing Hitchcock "everyman". It'd be nice if YOUNG AND INNOCENT was more recognized. It's interesting to compare Hitchcocks that go...
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I still remember being floored by the mine shaft sequence when I first saw it. I think the blackface bit could be a bit off putting for someone trying to air the film - don't know if it did or if the...
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I originally saw YOUNG AND INNOCENT in a rep theatre, along with the original MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, SECRET AGENT, SABOTAGE, maybe THE 39 STEPS. But I think I have also seen it on television. At any...
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I actually have never seen this film despite I probably own half a dozen different release (PD DVDs of course) so I figure I better take a look at this one soon.
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I'm fairly sure I first saw this movie early one morning on BBC2. There's a fantastic Hitchcockian tour-de-force shot in that scene with the blackface musicians. Pilbeam has to find the killer in a...
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Nic Pillai wrote: The camera moves over the crowd of dancing couples, moving inexorably on to the band, closing in on a banjo player, moving right in to a close-up of his eye... and then it twitches!...
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You're quite right, I don't know how I managed to forget "The Drummer Man"! It's obviously time to revisit the movie!
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Isn't there also some pretty cool model work with the car and a train, right before the mine shaft sequence? I seem to remember THE LADY VANISHES also having some nice models at the beginning.
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Yeah there's a sequence in a train yard where they have to hide out at; I've read that Hitchcock liked the models because it allowed him to control what was seen moreso than trying to shoot the real...
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What does the board think: Is this an unjustly maligned Hitchcock classic that should be seen by more people (providing they understand the context and history of the times), or is it justly ignored...
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