Stage Fright (1950)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

film noir, crime film, flashback film, crime thriller film, thriller film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 369 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young actress helps a friend who is wanted for murder and goes undercover in a theater troupe to find the real killer. She must navigate lies and suspicious characters to clear his name.

tensesuspensefultheatricalwittyfast-pacedglamorousintriguingclassic

What happens

Stage Fright is a 1950 British thriller film noir directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. The cast also features Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat Hitchcock in her film debut, and Joyce Grenfell in a vignette. The story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook and Alma Reville (the director's wife), with additional dialogue by James Bridie, based on the 1947 novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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