Under Capricorn (1949)
Country: GB
Technical: col 117m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton
Synopsis:
A young Irishman voyages to Australia, where he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. She is now married to an influential former convict with whom he is to do business, and all is not well in the household.
Review:
One of Hitch's rare costume pictures, and his third with Bergman, is a ravishing film to look at but is let down by a weak scenario and some miscasting. (Hitchcock later said that he was blinded by the coup of signing Bergman for a British independent production, though she herself is fine in it.) There are elements from earlier films, such as the transference of guilt theme and the overbearing housekeeper, and the director begins experimenting with seven or eight-minute takes, but the pace was too leaden and the dénouement too contrived for it to qualify as a successful mystery thriller.
Country: GB
Technical: col 117m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton
Synopsis:
A young Irishman voyages to Australia, where he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. She is now married to an influential former convict with whom he is to do business, and all is not well in the household.
Review:
One of Hitch's rare costume pictures, and his third with Bergman, is a ravishing film to look at but is let down by a weak scenario and some miscasting. (Hitchcock later said that he was blinded by the coup of signing Bergman for a British independent production, though she herself is fine in it.) There are elements from earlier films, such as the transference of guilt theme and the overbearing housekeeper, and the director begins experimenting with seven or eight-minute takes, but the pace was too leaden and the dénouement too contrived for it to qualify as a successful mystery thriller.
Country: GB
Technical: col 117m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton
Synopsis:
A young Irishman voyages to Australia, where he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart. She is now married to an influential former convict with whom he is to do business, and all is not well in the household.
Review:
One of Hitch's rare costume pictures, and his third with Bergman, is a ravishing film to look at but is let down by a weak scenario and some miscasting. (Hitchcock later said that he was blinded by the coup of signing Bergman for a British independent production, though she herself is fine in it.) There are elements from earlier films, such as the transference of guilt theme and the overbearing housekeeper, and the director begins experimenting with seven or eight-minute takes, but the pace was too leaden and the dénouement too contrived for it to qualify as a successful mystery thriller.