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Frenzy (1972)
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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