Frenzy

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Cast & Crew

Jon Finch
Richard Ian Blaney

Barry Foster
Robert Rusk

Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Brenda Margaret Blaney

Anna Massey
Barbara Jane "Babs" Milligan

Alec McCowen
Chief Inspector Oxford

Vivien Merchant
Mrs. Oxford

Billie Whitelaw
Hetty Porter

Jean Marsh
Monica Barling

Bernard Cribbins
Felix Forsythe

Michael Bates
Sergeant Spearman

Clive Swift
Johnny Porter

John Boxer
Sir George

Madge Ryan
Mrs. Davison

George Tovey
Mr. Salt

Elsie Randolph
Gladys

Jimmy Gardner
Hotel porter

Gerald Sim
Solicitor in pub

Noel Johnson
Doctor in pub

Alfred Hitchcock
Director

Arthur La Bern
Writer

Anthony Shaffer
Writer

William Hill
Associate Producer

Alfred Hitchcock
Producer

Ron Goodwin
Original Music

Gilbert Taylor
Cinematographer

Leonard J. South
Cinematographer

John Jympson
Film Editing

Sally Nicholl
Casting

Syd Cain
Production Design

Robert W. Laing
Art Director

Harry Frampton
Makeup Artist

Patricia McDermott
Hair Stylist

Brian Burgess
Production Manager

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Audience Reviews for Frenzy

• Nov 24, 2020

  It's too bad Alfred Hitchcock's movie-making prime years didn't happen when censors were more liberal. Frenzy gives us a peek of what Hitch would have done with some of the murders and sex scenes in his movies. For film lovers this is essential Hitchcock, not because the film is great - it is not - but, it has the Hitchcock touch and is a fascinating entry into his oeuvre.
  

  Aldo G Super Reviewer
• Nov 27, 2019

  Perhaps the only time Hitchcock was able to go as far as he wanted. That being said the reason to see this is for Shaffer's darkly witty screenplay.
  

  Alec B Super Reviewer
• Feb 18, 2018

  I've always liked 'Frenzy', Hitchcock's second to last movie, filmed when he was 73. The London pub and market scenes in Covent Garden always grab me from the start, and I love the dialogue between Jon Finch and both Anna Massey and Barry Foster. Finch plays a down-on-his-luck barman who's just been "given the push" (fired) from his job for drinking too much, Massey is his feisty co-worker, and Foster his charming and kind friend who tries to help him. Hanging over London is the "Necktie Murderer", as we see in the early shots of a nude woman floating in the Thames. When Finch pays a visit to his ex-wife (Barbara Leigh-Hunt), things take a downward turn, but I won't say anything further. There are several excellent shots worth noting. The one where Hitchcock slowly backs the camera down the stairwell and back out into the street, after the killer and his next victim are entering his apartment, is brilliant. The fumbling around in the moving potato truck, leading to breaking fingers where rigor mortis has set in has a gruesome and morbidly absurd feel to it. I also love the small moment when at the trial, Hitchcock places the camera outside the courtroom, and lets us hear snippets of the judge's pronouncement when the door opens. The film feels eminently British which I enjoyed, and distinctly Hitchcock, as he slips in some droll humor in the form of a detective (Alex McCowen) and his wife (Vivien Merchant), who cooks him unappetizing French haute cuisine while he craves traditional British fare. For the first time, Hitchcock also uses brief nudity in a few scenes mostly to heighten the garish and horrifying murders, and maybe to please his inner voyeur. There are moments which made me smile (a margarita being too exotic a drink comes to mind), and others which made me cringe (a gentleman saying to a barmaid that being raped before being strangled is akin to every cloud having a silver lining, and her smiling about it). The middle portion of the film is not quite as strong as I remembered it, but overall, a solid thriller, and underrated in Hitchcock's oeuvre.
  Antonius B Super Reviewer
• Nov 19, 2016

  Pretty shitty. Hands down the worst Hitchcock film I've ever seen, and just a terrible film in general.
  Stephen S Super Reviewer

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