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Actors: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, John Longden
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Young and Innocent |
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YOUNG AND INNOCENT is a movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock in England in 1937.
Robert Tisdall is falsely accused of having murdered a rich actress. He escapes from the court house and, with the help of the constable's daughter he has convinced of his innocence, will start his own investigation to find the real murderer.
A classic Hitchcock of the english period.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Young and Innocent |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Legal/Political Thriller?
Yes
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Legal Thriller Plotlets:
- finding out whether someone is really guilty
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals portrayed sympathetically on the run
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair style
- short/standard wavy (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
Misc setting
- prison
- resort/hotel
- cave
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 1
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- drowned
Check here if B&W
Yes
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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