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Stage Fright
1950·110 min·★ 6.8
Thriller
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Status
Released
Budget
$1,450,000
Revenue
$1,900,000
Cast
Jane Wyman
Eve Gill
Marlene Dietrich
Charlotte Inwood
Michael Wilding
Det. Insp. Wilfried 'Ordinary' Smith
Richard Todd
Jonathan Cooper
Alastair Sim
Commodore Gill
Sybil Thorndike
Mrs. Gill
Discussion
CinemaSerf★ 7/10
Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich head a strong cast in this tense, enthralling Hitchcock adaptation of Selwyn Jepson's 1948 thriller "Man Running" about an acting student (Wyman) who shelters her fellow student Richard Todd - with whom she is in love - from police investigating the murder of his mistress (Dietrich's) husband. Still with me? Well, add a superb Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh and Michael Wilding and we are off on quite a complex mystery with plenty of twists and turns - and quite a bit of humour. If a little bit long, it is still well worth watching.
