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Frenzy is a British film of genre Drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in USA on 21 june 1972 with Jon Finch

Frenzy (1972)

Frenzy
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Released in USA 21 june 1972
Length 1h56
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Comedy,    Horror,    Crime
Rating73% 3.6972253.6972253.6972253.6972253.697225

Frenzy is a 1972 British thriller-psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The second to last feature film of his extensive career, it is often considered by critics and scholars to be his last great film before his death. The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer was based on the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern.

The film stars Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster and features Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bernard Cribbins and Vivien Merchant. The original music score was composed by Ron Goodwin.

The film was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition.

The plot centres on a serial killer in contemporary London. In a very early scene there is dialogue that mentions two actual London serial murder cases: the Christie murders in the early 1950s, and the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888.

Frenzy was the third film Hitchcock made in Britain after he moved to Hollywood in 1939. The other two were Under Capricorn in 1949 and Stage Fright in 1950. The last film he made in Britain before his move to America was Jamaica Inn in 1939.

Synopsis

In London, a serial killer is raping women and strangling them with neckties. Most of the film takes place in Covent Garden, which at the time was still the wholesale fruit and vegetable market district. Fairly early in the film, the audience sees that fruit merchant Robert Rusk (Barry Foster) is in fact the murderer. However, circumstantial evidence has already built up around his friend Richard Blaney (Jon Finch).

Actors

Jon Finch

(Richard Ian Blaney)
Alec McCowen

(Chief Inspector Tim Oxford)
Barry Foster

(Robert Rusk)
Billie Whitelaw

(Hetty Porter)
Anna Massey

(Barbara Jane 'Babs' Milligan)
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