Young and Innocent

that really have... that you just sort of keep coming back to as a fan, as a critic, anything?

Well, I mean, one of my all-time favorite Hitchcock sequences, and it's actually one of my favorite Hitchcock films, is actually the finale of Young and Innocent, which is another film from this, you know, 1930s British period.

I want to say it's 1937? Seven, yeah.

And...

I love those big sequences, but a film like Notorious, which has a lot invested in this relationship between the American intelligence agent played by Cary Grant and this party girl played by...

Ingrid Bergman, who happens to be the daughter of a convicted Nazi, this is, you know, after World War II, who's then recruited to kind of Mata Hari her way through this scenario where she has to marry Claude Rains, you know, absolutely the most sort of like weirdly sympathetic man, a former Nazi in Rio, certainly.

But that scene in the wine cellar, which is preceded by a kind of a bookend scene tracking shot to young and innocent where you have this party you have the telltale key in england bergman's hand to the wine cellar door which she's purloined from her new husband and the tracking shot starts way up here down you don't really know where it's going it's just like just like with the drummer and young and innocent and then you close up of the hand very close, and she's fingering the key.

And then, anyway, that's the setup for the scene.

Special thanks to There's Hitch Players for the incidental dialogue.

In a couple weeks, we will introduce our third installment of our second season with Young and Innocent.

Once again, this is Norm De Gare reminding you to stay vigilant.

When the power outage is over and the lights come back on, you might just see a portly man looking skyward.

A family taking in a lodger, a shop girl caught in blackmail, an everyman on the run for a murder he hadn't committed.

More thrillers followed, Secret Agent and Sabotage in 1936, then Young and Innocent in 1937.

Around Hitchcock, however, the British film industry was becoming less secure.

The effort to compete with Hollywood, backed by Parliament's 1927 law requiring a proportion of British films on British screens, was faltering.

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And the movie is called Young and Innocent-

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