Young and Innocent (1937)

a.k.a The Girl Was Young

80 min
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the...

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Crentist852

Underrated Hitchcock. This film has an incredible ending and is worthy of checking out.

12 years ago

A very minor Hitchcock film with a slapdash plot that doesn’t stand up to even a moment’s scrutiny.

The “MacGuffin” in the movie is just an ordinary rain coat, and all the intense focus on this raincoat (which the hero believes will prove his innocence) is pretty silly unless you presume that it is the ONLY such raincoat in all of England, when in reality there were no doubt many thousands if not millions of similar raincoats, so finding his raincoat wouldn’t prove a damn thing.

Hitchcock made much better, more entertaining “wrongly accused man on the run” films both before (“The 39 Steps”) and after (“North by Northwest”) he made this movie. There’s a reason “Young and Innocent” rates very low in the Hitchcock canon.

7 months ago

Ebbywebby

Hey, not bad. More in the classic Hitchcock mode than expected – the title suggests more of a romance. It's sporadically funny too. On the down side, there is some horrible use of miniatures, an orchestra performing in blackface and Hitchcock's usual cost-cutting, back-projection shots in car sequences. Oh yeah, and the film's basic premise doesn't make any sense because the police on the beach should have shrugged off the guy as a suspect as soon as they saw his body was not wet or sandy at all. Analyzing the footprints in the sand might have cleared him too.

11 months ago