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NEON SIGNS IN PICCADILLY SQUARE AT NIGHT IN LONDON
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CU BIG BEN CLOCK TOWER LIT UP AT NIGHT
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Specialty CollectionGenre: 1920s FEATURE FILMS
Description: SUSPENSE MYSTERY DIRECTED BY ALFRED HITCHCOCK WITH ANNY ONDRA, JOHN LONGDEN, DONALD CALTHROP, CYRIL RITCHARD, SARA ALLGOOD, CHARLES PATON, HARVEY BRABAR, PHYLLIS MONKMAN, HANNAH JONES, PERCY PARSONS, JOHNNY BUTT. ALICE, WHO IS DINING WITH HER FIANCE, A SCOTLAND YARD DETECTIVE FLIRTS WITH HANDSOME ARTIS. AFTER FRANK LEAVES IN ANGER SHE GOES TO ARTIST'S STUDIO TO SEE HIS ETCHINGS. SHE LOOKS OVER HIS WORK INCLUDING SOME NUDES, THEN NAIVELY AGREES TO POSE FOR THE ARTIST. HE BEGINS TO DRAW HER SCANTILY CLAD. SHE RESISTS GRABBING BREAD KNIFE AND PLUNGING IT INTO THE RAKE WHILE HITCHCOCK SWIVELED HIS CAMERA TO SHOW THE PAINTING OF A GRIM COURT JESTER GRINNING STRANGELY DOWN UPON THE KILLING. ALICE FLEES IN PANIC, LEAVING BEHIND HER GLOVES. ONE OF THESE IS FOUND LATER BY FRANK, WHO IS ASSIGNED TO INVESTIGATE THE CASE. HE RECOGNIZES THE GLOVE AS THAT OF HIS FIANCE BUT DOES NOT TURN HER IN, BELIEVING HER INNOCENT. THE OTHER GLOVE IS FOUND BY TRACY WHO USES IT TO BLACKMAIL THE DETECTIVE. MEANWHILE, ALICE IS BESET WITH GUILT AND EVERY TIME SHE HEARS THE WORD "KNIFE" SHE CRINGES & WINCES. TRACY'S GAME OF BLACKMAIL BACKFIRES WHEN FRANK TELLS HIM ON THE PHONE THAT HE KNOWS WHO HE IS & HE WILL SOON BE ARRESTED. IN A GRAND CHASE THRU HISTORIC LONDON SITES, FRANK & OTHER DETECTIVES RACE AFTER TRACY, FINALLY TRAVERSING THE BRITISH MUSEUM, PAST ANCIENT ARTIFACTS, WHICH CULMINATES WITH THE CULPRIT SCRAMBLING OVER THE BUILDING'S HUGE READING ROOM DOME FROM WHICH HE FINALLY FALLS TO HIS DEATH. HITCHCOCK USES REAR PROJECTION DEVICE. HE SHOWS THE FALL THRU MIRROR TECHNIQUE. ALICE, OVERCOME WITH GUILT, FINALLY RACES TO SCOTLAND YARD TO CONFESS, BUT SHE IS CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTED AND FINALLY GIVES UP. FRANK ARRIVES, HANDS HER BACK HER GLOVE WITHOUT COMMENT, AND THE TWO GO OFF TOGETHER. JOAN BARRY'S VOICE IS DUBBED IN. HITCHCOCK APPEARS IN A SUBWAY CAR TRYING TO READ A BOOK WHILE BEING JOSTLED, ANNOYED BY A PESKY BOY WHO KEEPS JABBERING AT HIM. LANDLADY, CROOK, INSPECTOR, SERGEANT.
