Frenzy
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Short description
A series of stranglings in London, carried out by a killer who leaves a necktie on each victim, has the police under pressure and the public on edge. Richard Blaney, a former Royal Air Force pilot now scraping by as a barman, loses his job and turns to his ex-wife, who runs a marriage bureau, for help. When she is found murdered in the same manner as the other women, suspicion falls on him, and he goes on the run to clear his name while the detective leading the investigation begins to doubt the case against him.
Alfred Hitchcock directed Frenzy, the forty-first of the forty-three films he directed in chronological order, following Topaz and preceding Family Plot. Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay, and Hitchcock produced with William Hill. Jon Finch plays Blaney, with Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey and Alec McCowen in supporting roles. The film was made for about two million dollars and took roughly thirteen million worldwide.
Frenzy was released in 1972 and runs 116 minutes. It holds a 7.4 rating on IMDb from around 53,000 votes and a 7.1 on TMDB from about a thousand votes, while the film critics' rating stands at 7.6 from forty-seven reviews, slightly above the audience scores on both sites. It is a British production, filmed in London.
What's left behind the scenes
- Alfred Hitchcock cameo: he stands in the center of the crowd of listeners, the only one not applauding the speaker. Initially, Hitchcock planned a role for his cameo as a drowned man floating down the Thames. A mannequin was made with an exact copy of Hitchcock's head, but this idea was not implemented, and the mannequin was used to film a promotional trailer for the film.
- The film was shot from August to October 1971. Filming took place at the Pinewood Studios pavilion in the UK and on location in London (Covent Garden, Oxford Street).
- A film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's novel "Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square" (English: Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square).
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) established a filming schedule for shooting in London's Covent Garden that involved shooting daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Once, during filming, as Hitchcock was finishing another take, a union representative approached him and stated that it was already a quarter to seven in the evening and the shooting should be stopped. This enraged Hitchcock so much that he threatened to finish filming in Hollywood. After this incident, no one from the unions was allowed on the set.
- Hitchcock offered Vladimir Nabokov to write the screenplay for this film, but Nabokov declined. As a result, Anthony Shaffer wrote the screenplay.
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