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Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. [3] It is the penultimate feature film of his extensive career. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the 1966 novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern .
Jun 21, 2022 · 50 years of Frenzy, Alfred Hitchcock’s brazen British homecoming film. Relaxing censorship and Hitchcock’s return to London set the stage for one of his blackest and most salacious thrillers – a serial killer thriller called Frenzy, which he compared to a fairground ride.
Frenzy: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey. A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
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Hitchcock’s fifty-second film, Frenzy, was a triumph at the Cannes Festival and reconciled both schools of critics, who acclaimed it unanimously, perhaps because it is the first film he’s made in Great Britain in twenty years. Hitchcock often says, “Some directors film slices of life, but I film slices of cake.”
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After the brutal murder of his ex-wife, down-on-his luck former RAF pilot Richard Blaney is suspected of being the "Neck Tie Murderer" — a vicious serial killer terrorising London. With the help of his friends, Blaney goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Arthur La Bern's novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square was published in 1966 and it is believed that Hitchcock read it during the autumn of 1970, whilst looking for a new project after the disappointment of Topaz. He later told journalist Rebecca Morehouse, "The book was sent me by the publisher. I was attracted by the market [scenes]...
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Directed by: 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Colin M Brewer- assistant director (2nd unit) Starring: 1. Jon Finch - Richard Blaney 2. Alec McCowen - Chief Insp. Oxford 3. Barry Foster - Robert Rusk 4. Billie Whitelaw - Hetty Porter 5. Anna Massey - Babs Milligan 6. Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Brenda Blaney 7. Bernard Cribbins - Felix Forsythe 8. Vivien Merchant - ...
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This is the kind of thriller Hitchcock was making in the 1940s, filled with macabre details, incongruous humor, and the desperation of a man convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. The only 1970s details are the violence and the nudity (both approached with a certain grisly abandon that has us imagining “Psycho” without the shower curtain).
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