“the night always exaggerates things, doesn’t it? personally, i like the night. it’s much more reliable than the day.” 

add this to the list of movies i was enjoying until people started randomly wearing blackface.

Quintessential innocent man on the run plus love interest from Hitchcock. Whilst he subverted this trope in Stage Fright, it has arguably been his safety blanket to fall back on. Whilst this isn't an outstanding example, it's a solid film nonetheless.

The best thing about this is most certainly the chemistry and charisma of the two stars. It almost lifts this to a more notable regard. Outside that though, the whole murder is a little poorly communicated. Once again, it has shaky beginnings (despite an eyecatching lighthouse scene). There are certainly pacing issues as well. The film works best when we forget the why and just leave our brain behind and get caught up in the emotions and suspense of the piece.

Slightly underappreciated in the annals of Hitchcock (you almost never hear about it), but there is little here to really sell this as a must see. An enjoyable deep cut for Hitch nuts.

“She’s got a nerve.” 
“She certainly has.” 

Yes, and now I am in love with Nova Pilbeam because of her role as Erica!! 

I was the exact opposite of enamored with my second Hitchcock compared to my first (North by Northwest). So much so that I tried to watch it yesterday and I fell asleep. Was able to stay awake for my watch through today though! However, despite my less than stoked response to the film, Young and Innocent is very smartly written, to such an extent that the dialogue and character actions really do feel quite authentic. 

Not much else to say here. It’s a very familiar type of story.

Week 5/52 of the Criterion Challenge

Have ya see the 39 steps? Well here it is again! Seriously it's amazing how similar this movie is, but then again i like the 39 steps so who am i to complain? So wich one is better, well like i said they are eerily similar but i think this one's got the edge 'cause the dialogue is a bit funnier and the female lead is more productive.

also uhm.. why the hell are the musicians in blackface?!

Young and Innocent. The 1937 Hitchcock. Not one of his best, but it is a cute one. More sweet then a thrilling. Many amusing bits. The dumb cops, the café brawl, the garden gnome. Hitchcock really makes each scene memorable. Yet, for me it doesn't string all that well together. Feels like a movie with a selection of scenarios then a fully fletched continuous story. But they are quality moments!

Derrick De Marney & Nova Pilbeam in the leads are really the lifeline in this movie. How their romance gradually grows with each experience they have together. Edward Rigby as the old bum.... what a dancer!!! And naturally the point where we're re-introduced to the killer. Magnificently done. Oh, and those model train scenes where funny in a Thomas the Tank Engine kinda way. So yeah, plenty of little things that gets noticed to make it a fun film.

This movie was pretty enjoyable until the blackface at the end... watching really old movies with barely any knowledge of them beforehand is always a gamble to see if normalized racist acts of the times show up. Definitely won’t be rewatching it because of that.

full of nice comedic and character touches - wink wink. Car chases. Mining works tension. The black-faced orchestra was a bit of a shocker.

La fiesta de cumpleaños, el baile en el hotel y el tono ligero y festivo. Adoro las obras "menores".

The dialogue, characters, and action are brilliant. The 1930s racism is not.

Very straight forward simple plot. Fun but weak fo old al

Hitchcock’s mastery is still developing here with its pedestrian directing, though Young and Innocent is nonetheless funny and confident. For all the thrills, mystery, and cat-and-mouse antics, however, I still get annoyed at these old films when an inept justice system is responsible for nearly every unnecessary issue in the plot, but I suppose there wouldn’t be a film without it. Heck, perhaps Hitchcock was ahead of his time and pulled some kind of accidental brilliance here w.r.t. satirizing the ineptitude of the justice system viz. having them prosecute a clearly innocent victim with a blatantly plausible story. I don’t know, it seems possible to me.

Hitchcock ainda não era O Hitchcock aqui, mas tava pertinho

Always nice to watch a film from an iconic director in his early years. Plot moved along nice and quickly with some good performances, but he clearly had a lot to discover about filmmaking and storytelling. Nice that it was more of a love story, almost closer to a romcom than a murder mystery.

Über weite Strecken solide. Ein bisschen wie ein Remake von '39 Steps'. Hitch hat auf alle Fälle sein Lieblingsthema gefunden: Der unschuldige, aber verdächtige Protagonist auf der Flucht. Bei der Minen-Action-Szene war die Inszenierung etwas holprig. Sie wirkt, als hätte sich Hitch damit überhoben: größer geplant, als es das Budget erlaubte.

Dann kommt das Ende und mit ihm das groteske Blackfacing. Nee, nee, nee.

30s and 40s Hitchcok mini binge: Film #8

Pretty derivative of The 39 Steps but I'm pleased yet again that there's still plenty to enjoy about the lesser Hitchcock films. Young and Innocent is a charming romantic-comedy, but more than anything it serves as a delightful mockery of the incompetent police force. Every cop here is a bungling idiot who doesn't even come close to catching the right OR wrong man, and when Hitchcock has them sit with a bunch of pigs the film reaches the height of its condemnation. The film is pretty light on tension, but the comic relief is often outstanding so I'm not sure if it really matters. In the end this isn't anything extraordinary for Hitchcock, but it's a fun romp with two extremely charismatic leads and with Hitchcock's growing technical acumen, it's never a waste of time.

I liked this movie until the blackface