Product Information
Tense tale of an ex-RAF officer who is suspected of being London's 'necktie murderer'.Product Identifiers
ProducerAlfred Hitchcock
EAN5050582362039
eBay Product ID (ePID)3954191
Product Key Features
ActorBarry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Alec Mccowen, Jon Finch, Bernard Cribbins, Anna Massey, Vivien Merchant, Barbara Leigh Hunt
Film/TV TitleFrenzy
DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
Release Year2005
GenreThriller, General
Run Time111 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Number of Discs1
ComposerRon Goodwin
Production DesignerSyd Cain
Additional InformationFRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person acts out the repressed violence of another), and the general public's thirst for sex and violence. Hitchcock had made films featuring Jack the Ripper-type killers before, including THE LODGER in 1926, a silent movie about a series of murders in London and a mysterious man who appears to be guilty of the crimes. In FRENZY, Hitchcock goes mod with this blackly comic story about a sex criminal--the Necktie Killer--plaguing post-Carnaby London. An innocent man who is suspected by police as the murderer must fight to nab the real perpetrator and clear his name. Though not as well-known as his other films, FRENZY marked a striking return to form for the famed director. Anthony Shaffer's script is excellent, and Jon Finch brings distinctive qualities to his role as the classic Hitchcock man-accused hero.
ScreenwriterAnthony Shaffer
AuthorArthur LaBern
Set DesignerSimon Wakefield
EditorJohn Jympson
Movie/TV TitleFrenzy
Director of PhotographyGilbert Taylor
Consumer AdviceContains a scene of sexual violence