The Camera LiesPub Date : 2020-11-01DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197515327.003.0006
D. Callahan
{"title":"Rich and Strange, Number 17, Waltzes from Vienna","authors":"D. Callahan","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197515327.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197515327.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"An in-depth consideration of one of Hitchcock’s best and most undervalued films, Rich and Strange, in which he draws unerringly precise, layered, and touching work from four actors: Henry Kendall and Joan Barry, who play a straying married couple on holiday; Percy Marmont, who plays a shy British major in love with Barry’s timid wife; and Elsie Randolph, who gives a performance as the outcast Miss Imbrie that is as terrifying as anything in Psycho or The Birds. Hitchcock was not happy with either the thriller Number 17 (1932) or the operetta Waltzes from Vienna (1933), where he found no common ground with musical star Jessie Matthews, but the first period of his successful sound thrillers soon followed.","PeriodicalId":104306,"journal":{"name":"The Camera Lies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130256240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Camera LiesPub Date : 2020-08-20DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197515327.003.0004
D. Callahan
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