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STAGE FRIGHT Alfred Hitchcock UK DVD (2008)
Header Photo: Detail from one of the promo posters of Stage Fright released at the original time of when it was released. View the whole poster
here. Stating the bleedin' obvious but no-one did Dietrich like Dietrich and no-one will ever come close. Stage Fright Dvd details below.
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Cast
Jane Wyman Eve Gill / Doris Tinsdale
Crew
Dir/Prod: Alfred Hitchcock
Scr: Whitfield Cook, Alma Reville, James Bridie, from the stories Man Running and Outrun the Constable by Selwyn Jepson
Ph: Wilkie Cooper
Ed:Edward Jarvis
Mus: Leighton Lucas
Art Dir:
Terence Verity
(Warner / Associated British)
Made in London, the overlooked and under-rated “Stage Fright” stars Jane Wyman as a stage-struck RADA student implausibly forced to play a real-life role in order to solve a murder. Marlene Dietrich is decidedly eye-catching as the jaded international singing star, with Richard Todd on the run as Wyman's former boyfriend.
The film offers frequent tickling diversions from great supporting players like Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell and Sybill Thorndike.
It's a comic charade, really — a whodunnit about role-playing and duplicity; even the flashback lies. Hitchcock later admitted to François Truffaut that this contributed to the suspense structure's not being up to his normal standard. But then again, the point of the film lies elsewhere
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding, Alastair Sim
Classification: PG
In Alfred Hitchcock's world, theatres are where danger stalks the wings, characters are not what they seem, and that 'final curtain' can drop any second. The droll "Stage Fright" springs from that entertaining tradition. Jane Wyman plays drama student Eve Gill, who tries to clear a friend (Richard Todd) being framed for murder by becoming the maid of flamboyant stage star Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich). Filming in his native England, Hitchcock merrily juggles elements of humour and whodunit and puts a game ensemble (Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh and daughter Patricia Hitchcock) through its paces. No one turns a theatre into a bastion of dread like Hitchcock, and "Stage Fright" is proof positive.
ABOUT THE DVD: This is a release by WARNER HOME VIDEO for the UK market (Region 2 PAL format - which will play on all standard DVD in the UK and the rest of Europe - buyers outside of Europe will need a multi-region player in order to view this DVD). AUDIO is the original ENGLISH language (there are also French and Italian dubbed audio-tracks on the disc) - SUBTITLES on the DVD are in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Arabic and Bulgarian (There are also hard-of-hearing subs for English and Italian languages only) - SPECIAL FEATURES on the DVD are new 'making of' featurette 'Hitchcock And Stage Fright' and the film's original theatrical trailer.
Jan. 17: Back in stock. 'Used - very good'.
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