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Frenzy (1972)

Name: Frenzy
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Genre: drama film, horror film, crime film
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 7.4

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · Shot by Gilbert Taylor, Leonard J. South · Cut by John Jympson · Music by Ron Goodwin · 116 min

How it was made

Hitchcock approached Vladimir Nabokov to write the script, but Nabokov turned it down because he was busy with a book, and the job went to Anthony Shaffer instead.
Actor Barry Foster prepared for his role by studying two books about Neville Heath, an English double murderer who posed as an RAF officer.
Hitchcock filmed extensively around Covent Garden's still-operating produce market as a deliberate homage to his childhood as the son of a Covent Garden merchant, aware that the market's relocation was imminent.
During shooting, Hitchcock's wife and longtime collaborator Alma suffered a stroke, and several sequences were filmed without him on set so he could tend to her.
Composer Henry Mancini was fired after Hitchcock felt his opening theme sounded too much like Bernard Herrmann's work; Ron Goodwin was hired to replace him and rescored the opening titles in the style of a London travelogue.

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Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Frenzy (Hitchcock, 1972) with Jon Finch and Barry Foster — Serious Feather · 26 min

Elsewhere

More by Alfred Hitchcock

Woman to Woman — 1923
Always Tell Your Wife — 1923
The White Shadow — 1924
The Passionate Adventure — 1924
The Pleasure Garden — 1925
The Mountain Eagle — 1926
Downhill — 1927
The Ring — 1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog — 1927
Easy Virtue — 1927
The Farmer's Wife — 1928
Champagne — 1928
Blackmail — 1929
Juno and the Paycock — 1929
The Manxman — 1929
Elstree Calling — 1930
An Elastic Affair — 1930
Murder! — 1930
The Skin Game — 1931
Rich and Strange — 1931
Mary — 1931
Number Seventeen — 1932
The Man Who Knew Too Much — 1934
Waltzes from Vienna — 1934
The 39 Steps — 1935
The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Secret Agent — 1935
Sabotage — 1936
Secret Agent — 1936
Young and Innocent — 1937
Jamaica Inn — 1939

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