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Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Alec McCowen
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Frenzy |
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Richard Blaney (Finch), is an ex-RAF pilot who is down on his luck. Temperamental, inclined to drink, and out of another job, he looks up his ex-wife Brenda (Leigh-Hunt), who is sympathetic and helps him out. Unfortunately, the Necktie Murderer who rapes and strangles women gets Brenda, and Richard is a suspect. He turns to his friend Bob Rusk (Foster), a dapper and easygoing fruit and vegetable dealer, who betrays him. Blaney tries to clear himself and catch or stop the real murderer, and Chief Inspector Oxford (McCowen) may just be onto the truth of the matter. This 1972 film was Alfred Hitchcock's second-to-last feature; not among his greatest, and a bit creepily misogynistic at times, but still very good.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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FRENZY is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1972.
London. As the neck tie murderer, a sexual killer who rapes his victims before strangling them with a tie, is terrorizing the city, Jon Finch is fired by his boss. He is helped by his friend Barry Foster, his ex-wife Barbara Leigh-Hunt and his girl-friend Anna Massey. We understand soon that Barry Foster is the neck tie murderer as Barbara Leigh-Hunt is his next victim. Jon Finch is the main suspect because Barbara's secretary has seen him leaving his wife's building moments before the corpse is discovered. Jon, unable to produce an alibi to the police, prefers to hide and plans to leave England with Anna Massey. But Anna is the next victim of the killer and Jon is arrested after Barry Foster has denounced him. Jon is judged and condemned to life imprisonment. But Chief Inspector Oxford still does have doubts about his guiltiness and so does Oxford's wife...
A good Hitchcock film.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Frenzy |
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Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 25%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 45%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Story partially from villain's perspective
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 80%
Misc. Plotlets
- victim dies just after sex
Special suspect?
- lover
- best friend
Kind of mystery?
- police procedural
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- businessman, small
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Misc setting
- prison
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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