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Release Date: 1931

Cast: Betty Amann, Aubrey Dexter, Diana Dors, Henry Kendall, Brandon De Wilde, Joan Barry, Hannah Jones, Elsie Randolph, Alfred Hitchcock, Percy Marmont

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Comedy, Romance Film, Adventure, Black-and-white

Rich and Strange (1931) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. The film was adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Val Valentine from a novel by Dale Collins. The film is most notable for the techniques utilized by Hitchcock that would reappear later in his career. Most notable are the sets, including a recreation of a full-sized ship in a water tank used in the final act of the film. The director also experimented with different camera techniques and shot compositions. Cat owners will remember the scene aboard a Chinese junk, when... MORE

Rich and Strange (1931) is a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. The film was adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Val Valentine from a novel by Dale Collins. The film is most notable for the techniques utilized by Hitchcock that would reappear later in his career. Most notable are the sets, including a recreation of a full-sized ship in a water tank used in the final act of the film. The director also experimented with different camera techniques and shot compositions. Cat owners will remember the scene aboard a Chinese junk, when the crew members fed them a stew made from a feline they had rescued. A couple, Fred (Henry Kendall) and Emily Hill (Joan Barry), living a mundane middle class life in London, receive a telegram informing them of a small fortune given them by an uncle as an advance against their future inheritance, so that they can enjoy it in the present. Immediately Fred takes leave from his job as a clerk and they leave on a cruise for "the Orient". Fred quickly shows his susceptibility to sea-sickness while crossing the English Channel. While in Paris both are scandalized by the Folies Bergères, demonstrating LESS