Universal Pictures
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Universal)
Serial killer Barry Foster rapes and then strangles his London victims. His friend is accused of the crimes based on circumstantial evidence, for which he is eventually convicted. He escapes a prison hospital and vows to get revenge on Foster, but a police investigator who has also deduced the real killer's identity manages to stop him. Somewhat a return to form for Hitchcock after a series of duds in the 60s. He revisits the familiar themes of murder and the "wrong man" which served him well in the past, spicing it up with language and nudity which was now allowed in the 70s. It feels a bit too voyeuristic at times, and his attempt to recreate a murder scene on par with Psycho fails miserably. However, a long scene in which foster attempts to retrieve evidence from a corpse in the back of a potato truck is classic Hitchcock.
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