Great Hitchcock

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2002)

Probably my favourite of the Hitchcock films I've seen to date, over Psycho, Dial M & Vertigo.
Cary Grant's just brilliant as Roger. One of the most convincing & faultless pieces of acting you'll ever see, superior to James Stewart, in Hitchcock roles.
I had problems with the casting though, not the acting or characters, they were all brilliant, but Cary was 54 when this was made, by my reckoning, yet played someone half that age, his Mum was a few months younger than him & Eve seemed far older than the character she played, which she was.

Ignoring Cary Grant's grey hair which slightly belittled his role & two or three aspects of criminal behaviour which don't really hold up in today's world, (why didn't the villains drive past in a car & shoot rather than a plane?) and a story dragged on 10 or 15 minutes too long, it's still a pretty awesome film with the usual superb acting, music & cinematography you expect from Hitchcock, but also with some amusing humour thrown in.
8/10