Young and Innocent (The Girl was Young)

“the night always exaggerates things, doesn’t it? personally, i like the night. it’s much more reliable than the day.” add this to the list of movies i was enjoying until people started randomly wearing blackface.

eely

“The Young and the Innocent” riffs on Alfred Hitchcock’s theme of mistaken identity by being a mistake to ever have been made.  The movie starts with the murder of an actress, with the man who discovered her body implicated as the perpetrator, when - to his shock - he is…

theriverjordan

Action! - The Master & The Fan: Hitchcock's Bumping Road To Mastering Suspense Don't you hate it when you try to do good and end up getting involved in a murder? Again, we see Hitchcock at his finest, albeit not to his full capacity, but this was a delightful 80-minute…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

My poetic tribute to the lovely leading lady: Ah yes, ‘twas a (super)Nova and not a star,  none smarter than she and could work a car,  light on her feet, a twinkle in her eyes,  soft spoken words could catch all the guys,  Thank God for Hitch that saw her glow,  to…

Ziglet_mir

Alfred Hitchcock directs this comedy thriller starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney, about a headstrong young woman who helps a man accused of murder try to clear his name. Though similar in premise to The 39 Steps, the film has its own individual charm, with a…

Josh Gillam

Early Hitchcock thriller focusing on the "wrong man" trope that would of course go on to make up the backbone of much of the director's filmography going forward. The film begins with the murder of an actress. Her corpse is found by a young man, and the police wrongly…

Slig001

The run of British Hitchcock films from The Man Who Knew Too Much onward feel like they are in conversation with each other and the audience as Hitchcock tests his formidable talents on various scenarios and watches the reactions and adjusts the formula. So now, after two…

threepenny

Rewatch on TCM.  Young and Innocent isn’t the best of Hitchcock’s films but it shouldn’t be overlooked. The plot is a wrong man scenario that involves several set pieces, a romance and a mystery, all of which wrap up in the last moments of the film. Nova Pilbeam and…

Chris Hughes

Hitchcock certainly loved to make films with wrongly accused men who have to go on the run whilst attempting to prove their innocence. While The 39 Steps and Saboteur stick the landing, this one is a pretty big miss for me.  The question at hand is the murder of an actress…

Jesse