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Old 19-06-2008, 11:10 PM
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Last night I watched Stage Fright for the first time.

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I though the false flashback was brilliant!

Although I'm also a big fan of The Ususal Suspect so that sort of thing appeals to me.

I don't understand why this film isn't rated a bit higher in the Hitchcock catalogue.

But then again, I felt Jane Wyman was a bit miscast. She just couldn't drop that American accent completely and it kept listing all over the place like a drunken sailor.

Alastair Sim was fab!

Any thoughts?
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Last night I watched Stage Fright for the first time.

(*Spoiler alert*)
.
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I though the false flashback was brilliant!

Although I'm also a big fan of The Ususal Suspect so that sort of thing appeals to me.

I don't understand why this film isn't rated a bit higher in the Hitchcock catalogue.

But then again, I felt Jane Wyman was a bit miscast. She just couldn't drop that American accent completely and it kept listing all over the place like a drunken sailor.

Alastair Sim was fab!

Any thoughts?
It almost a throwback to his 30s films as a slightly comic thriller. You can tell James Bridie had a hand in the dialogue. It was disliked at the time because it was felt it didn't play fair.
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Have to agree this for some reason is probably the most underated of Hitchcock's films.
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