Frenzy
by Alfred Hitchcock
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Actor: Alec McCowen, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Barry Foster, Jon FinchDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Cinematographer: Leonard J. South
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Editor: John Jympson
Producer: William Hill
Writer: Anthony Shaffer
Writer: Arthur La Bern
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Frenzy
DVD Review: Good'n creepy
Summary: 5 Stars
I first watched Frenzy when I was much younger and I remember being pretty darn scared. I've always loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies and this one is just so creepy because the wrong guy is the suspect through most of the movie until the very end, meanwhile the real culprit just keeps killing women. I think the actors couldn't have been picked more perfect for the roles and I simply just love this old movie.DVD Review: It is so easy to have someone else accused in your place
Summary: 4 Stars
Hitchcock, one of the most famous British expatriates in the cinema industry, came back for one film in England, in London very exactly and he demonstrated in the early 70s he was able to build a cool thriller, in the traditional English style and rhythm and make it fascinating. The case is of course so quaint, so pass? and he enjoys making thinks look the way they looked not in the 70s but in the 60s. He concentrates the film on Covent Garden when it was still a fruit and vegetable market, on their pubs, their dealers, their night life and their busy running hectic at times life. Today all that has disappeared and you can find the London Transport Museum where you used to have banana and orange wholesale dealers. Then he worked hard on finding the particular ways Londoners lived at that time, just after coal was banned around 1962. And of course his killer is well integrated in this extremely regular disorganized precipitation. The fashion is just right, the home furniture and various small equipment are just right, authentic, and yet the sarcastic eye of Alfred Hitchcock cannot forget to show the flaws and the drawbacks of this life that is slowly opening up to continental Europe and the whole world. The gourmet classes for housewives teaching them all kinds of French recipes that are of course deliciously failed by these amateurs while the good old bacon and eggs are getting out of fashion. But then we are in pure Hitchcockian fiction. A serial killer who strangles his victims with his ties and then dispose of them, both the victims and the ties together. An imbroglio that makes a friend of that killer be suspected and then, with a little of effort from the killer, that suspected person becomes the convicted killer who is no killer at all. He escapes the prison in the simplest British way you can imagine: he gets himself hospitalized so that he can go and have his vengeance on his friend who had had him arrested. And there the surprise will be total. Fiction again that shows a policeman who gets someone convicted for a serious crime and yet doubts his own conclusion and starts asking some more questions. Why did he not do it before? And he could have listened to his wife who, between serving pig trotters cooked with grapes or some partridges or pigeons cooked with cherries, had suggested that the suspect could not be the criminal for obscure reasons that have to do with feminine intuition. And he adds a good layer of gossip on publicans who both are tyrants in their pubs and informers to the police. That makes a pleasant film altogether whose rhythm is slow enough for peaceful enjoyment and fast enough for some thrilling pleasure. The title is of course one of these tricks Hitchcock was so fond of: he is not lying really, he is just overstating with a tongue in his cheek and that works all the time and we smile after the film since we were trapped into believing it was frantic and it was just intense.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
DVD Review: frenzy
Summary: 5 Stars
one of hitchcocks, greatest movies, well done, acting was well done, if you like alfred hitchcock add this movie to your collectionDVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars
The Bottom Line:
The movie that showed what Hitchcock could do when film censorship died down, Frenzy is a graphic telling of his favorite theme, the man wrongfully accused; though the first half can be a little slow (violent murders notwithstanding), the film really picks up in the second hour and delivers a good amount of tension with a wonderful ending and last line.
DVD Review: LOVELY disc
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read a few complaints about the first DVD edition of "Frenzy," most of which were gripes regarding the disc's audiovisual quality. Rest assured, fellow viewer, the A/V of this disc is truly first-rate. This last of Hitchcock's greatest features was beautifully filmed, and it's done justice with a sharp, vibrant picture and limpid Dolby Digital 2.0 mono soundtrack.
The excellent dubbed French dialogue track is accompanied by equally fine English and Spanish subs, which hover around or beneath the speaker of the corresponding text. I wish that more subtitles were positioned so! Scene selections consist of the usual titled thumbnail images.
The included documentary featurette, "The Story of 'Frenzy,'" is so involving that it feels like half of its 44-minute duration. Those who haven't yet seen the film are well advised to watch it before viewing this, as it outlines the picture's entire story with memorable clips interspersed with production photographs and charming interviews in which Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Anna Massey and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer relate a wealth of information concerning the movie's story and production. A clip of the movie's opening credits scored with the theme that Henry Mancini composed for it before being dismissed from the project is also included. As the story goes, Hitchcock listened to Mancini's score, yelled, "If I had wanted Bernard Herrmann, I would have hired him!" at him and fired him on the spot, immediately replacing him with Ron Goodwin.
Among the production photographs are many shots of the famous rape and murder scene, the flashback sequence and the potato truck scene, all of which were likely taken for use in storyboards to aid editing in post. Other photos in this gallery include shots from three deleted scenes (one of which serves as the background of the main menu) and quite a lot of photos of Hitchcock on the set.
Anyone who's seen any of the many amusing trailers that Hitchcock participated in knows how much fun they are, and the "Frenzy" trailer is no exception. I shouldn't need to mention that it's included; it would have been criminal to exclude it!
The production notes merely afford the viewer some interesting bits of trivia.
"Frenzy" has been available via numerous VHS editions since I was a kid, and before obtaining this, I always watched it on that format. I haven't seen and therefore can't evaluate the 2001 edition, but rest assured: this is worthy of the film. If the rest of Universal's Hitchcock Collection is as good as this, I'm looking forward to seeing them.
Description of Frenzy
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/20/2006 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: RAlfred Hitchcock's penultimate film, written by Anthony Shaffer (who also wrote Sleuth), this delightfully grisly little tale features an all-British cast minus star wattage, which may have accounted for its relatively slim showing in the States. Jon Finch plays a down-on-his-luck Londoner who is offered some help by an old pal (Barry Foster). In fact, Foster is a serial killer the police have been chasing--and he's framing Finch. Which leads to a classic Hitchcock situation: a guiltless man is forced to prove his innocence while eluding Scotland Yard at the same time. Spiked with Hitchcock's trademark dark humor, Frenzy also features a very funny subplot about the Scotland Yard investigator (Alec McCowen) in charge of the case, who must endure meals by a wife (Vivien Merchant) who is taking a gourmet-cooking class. --Marshall Fine
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