Season 2: Episode 59 - ALFRED HITCHCOCK: Stage Fright (1950)

Stage Fright (1950)

 

The script was adapted by Whitfield Cook and Ranald MacDougall from the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson.  This 1950 British Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock would include a host of big British talent.

 

The films stars Jane Wynan and Marlene Dietrich the only two non British actors.  The British actors would include Richard Todd, Alastair Sims, Sybil Thorndyke, Kay Walsh and Joyce Grenfell.  The film is also notable as the film Hitchcock let the actor direct themselves which was the late Marlene Dietrich.  When asked about this, Hitchcock would state, ‘Marlene was a professional star. She was also a professional cameraman, art director, editor, costume designer, hairdresser, makeup woman, composer, producer and director’.

 

Opening Credits (.20); Introduction (4.32); Forming the Plot (26.05; Commercial Break (31.20); Lights, Camera, Action (34.55); Epilogue (1:12.50); End Credits (1:15.54); Closing Credits (1:16.52)

 

Opening Credits:  If by Sally Mayes from the album Our Private World

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Closing Credits: Life Upon The Wicked Stage – by Blossom Dearie – Taken from the album It’s the Lovely….Blossom Dearie Volume 4

 

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