Product: Young & Innocent [VHS] (1938)
Rating: 5.0
Early genius
I saw this film on TV recently. It draws the viewer in right away with the dead body washing up on the beach and man who is wrongly accused. It has Hitchcock's trademark humor and suspense. It could have been more tightly edited in parts, but as I watched the ballroom scene near the end, all I could think was, Hitchcock is a genius. The camera scans the room and in a very restrained and patient way, zeros in on the killer as the characters try to do the same. There is also a little bit of Vertigo in the mine shaft scene.