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Old 22-02-2005, 05:48 PM
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I was thinking more of her lovely face and her slim figure. Her character also seems such a wonderfully kind person. The first time I saw her in it I fell in love with her at once.

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I thought the scenes with Alec McGowen and Vivien Merchant were priceless - they really added the right amount of black humour to the whole film
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Old 11-05-2005, 09:48 AM
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Frenzy is a cracking movie, even that late in Hitch's career. Some of the more 'sensitive' critics gave it a battering though - it was called 'sordid' more than once.

Myself, as soon as I sit down with it I am hooked - I think the basic tensions still work, even after seeing it so many times. The potato van scene with Foster still gets you up towards the edge of the seat...

Finch, Foster and Cribbins are excellent in it, and we were well and truly robbed with the early death of Barry - he never seemed to look his age.

Another favourite bit is that wonderfull sweeping titles shot and music :)

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I have only seen Frenzy twice and I think it's the best Hitchcock, I must get a copy. Mainly because of the modern English setting and cast, and Barry Foster was one of my favourite actors. The tension in the film really grips you!

Barry Foster's film and TV credits go way back to the 50s. He played a very good part in a Morse episode "The Last Enemy", and I remember thinking at the time that if John Thaw wasn't Morse then Barry Foster could have comfortably slotted into the role. He died just ten days before John Thaw!

He was also memorable in The Sweeney feature film from 1977 as the greasy manipulative Elliot McQueen! I never saw Van Der Valk at all, I went out more back then, but hopefully it will be repeated!
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Barry Foster was quite good in The Sweeney, although his American accent was very dubious
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Slightly off topic i know, but surely Bernard Cribbens should be knighted by now....for services to entertainment generaly. 'Right said Fred' alone is deserved of a CBE.
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Slightly off topic i know, but surely Bernard Cribbens should be knighted by now....for services to entertainment generaly. 'Right said Fred' alone is deserved of a CBE.
Add to that the part of Lennie the Dip in "TWO WAY STRETCH" 1960.
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I thought the scenes with Alec McGowen and Vivien Merchant were priceless - they really added the right amount of black humour to the whole film.
Yes,I loved her attempts at fancy cooking and poor Alec McGowen just wanted it good basic gub.
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Slightly off topic i know, but surely Bernard Cribbens should be knighted by now....for services to entertainment generaly. 'Right said Fred' alone is deserved of a CBE
Agreed,he is a national treasure and he should be recognised for his contribution to British films,television and radio.
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I thought the scenes with Alec McGowen and Vivien Merchant were priceless - they really added the right amount of black humour to the whole film
marvelous film and very gripping. The scene in the potato truck was pure hitchcock and as for McGowen & Merchant, superb.
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Agreed,he is a national treasure and he should be recognised for his contribution to British films,television and radio.
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Sadly he isn't really high profile enough now and the biggest thing he has done recently bombed - Blackball. He needs to be 'rediscovered' before its too late.

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He wasn't gonna sing ''You need hands,,,was he ??

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Sadly he isn't really high profile enough now and the biggest thing he has done recently bombed - Blackball. He needs to be 'rediscovered' before its too late.

There is a website in construction - bernardcribbins.com
He's in the Doctor Who Christmas special this year.
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Hitch came back to his roots with Frenzy after the razzmatazz of the USA .The film speaks for itself and is one of the all time greats...
I SAY THERE BOY!
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Hitch came back to his roots with Frenzy after the razzmatazz of the USA .The film speaks for itself and is one of the all time greats...
In truth he came back out of desperation after the collective flops of Marnie, Torn Curtain and Topaz. Universal had given up on him and he had to part finance it himself. It is never the less and interesting return to the more darkly comic, brisker-paced films of the '30s. The film is anacronistic though with the significance of the lead character being in tweeds in London - wouldn't have mattered by '70s. There are some great set pieces in it though.
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Then he went back again to the mess that was Family Plot...shame
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