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Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 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. The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna ...
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Jun 21, 1972 · 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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When short-tempered ex-Royal Air Force officer Richard Blaney (Jon Finch) discovers his ex-wife (Barbara Leigh-Hunt) murdered, Blaney becomes a suspect. Forced to go on the run, Blaney attempts to...
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Covent Garden wholesale fruit merchant Bob Rusk is an impotent serial killer who strangles women with a necktie. One of his victims is Brenda Blaney, the ex-wife of his best friend, Richard Blaney, who becomes a prime suspect. Fearing discovery, Rusk kills Blaney's girlfriend, a barmaid, and Blaney is arrested.
116 minutes. Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" is a return to old forms by the master of suspense, whose newer forms have pleased movie critics but not his public. 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.
1972's Frenzy was a serial-killer thriller more graphic and shocking than anything Hitchcock had directed before. Was it the movie he had always wanted to make, asks Mark Allison. Frenzy at...
Overview. After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man. Arthur La Bern. Author. Alfred Hitchcock. Director. Anthony Shaffer. Screenplay. Written by CinemaSerf on May 28, 2023.
