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Information
- Year
- 1930
- Runtime
- 104 min.
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Mystery
- Rating *
- 6.4
- Votes *
- 3,671
- Checks
- 984
- Favs
- 15
- Dislikes
- 15
- Favs/checks
- 1.5% (1:66)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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Eduardo Nasi
That's a nice movie.
Some actings in the beginning seem too affected, but the ending is so good that, by there, you'll have forgiven the first scenes. 12 years ago -
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Siskoid
What if Henry Fonda was bullied to come up with the same verdict as everyone else in 12 Angry Men? And then felt so guilty about it that he spent the next few days trying to solve the theater-related crime before an innocent woman goes to the gallows? That's essentially the premise of Murder!, a very early Hitchcock talkie that has its charms - the jury deliberations, the gallows humor, seeing the play from backstage, the tense audition scene - but generally jumps around too much for it to work as an effective whodunit. Herbert Marshall makes a good effete detective - an actor himself so he can read people - and there's value in showing how the police in this case were lazy in their pursuit of the evidence. I don't know why Norah Baring (as the accused Diana... ALSO Baring? That's so weird!) is so ethereal. I suppose this is from the book being adapted that she doesn't really defend herself, but you never really connect with the character and therefore neither care nor believe people are so taken with her. What tricks Hitchcock 'ports over from silent film-making are interesting, but this is one of his lower-tier efforts. 4 months 3 weeks ago