Young and innocent
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Young and innocent |
| Original title | Young and Innocent |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1937 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alfred Hitchcock |
| script |
Charles Bennett , Alma Reville , Edwin Greenwood , Anthony Armstrong |
| production |
Edward Black for Gaumont British Picture Corporation |
| music |
Al Goodhart , Al Hoffman , Samuel Lerner , Louis Levy |
| camera | Bernard Knowles |
| cut | Charles Frend |
| occupation | |
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Young and Innocent ( Young and Innocent ) is a British thriller of director Alfred Hitchcock in the year 1937 .
action
The film star Christine Clay is found dead after she has an argument with her husband - by her American friend Robert Tisdall. Robert Tisdall runs to get help and is watched by two women who then tell the police that he ran away from the crime scene. The police promptly suspect him of strangling Clay with the belt of a coat. There is also a prejudice in the press. However, Robert cannot prove his innocence because his own coat has previously been stolen from him. The police tried to give him answers when questioned. He escapes in the courthouse and tries to win the police director's daughter, Erica Burgoyne, as an ally.
After he snuck into her vehicle, she first abandons him in an abandoned country house. But then she gets pity and provides him with food. Robert convinces her of his innocence and at the same time tries to build a love relationship with her. Their mutual escape in the car leads them indirectly to Old Will, who owns the coat - but without a belt. Old Will is a homeless man who was given the coat. He still remembers that the giver kept blinking his eyes. Erica is now caught by the police, but her father releases her. He is stepping down from his position as Chief Constable. Erica goes on a search for the belt with Old Will.
A trail leads them to the “Grand Hotel”, where they suspect the murderer. The only thing they know about him is that he keeps blinking his eyes. The wanted man actually plays in a band in the hotel ballroom. He realizes that they are on his way and has a nervous breakdown, whereupon he confesses to the murder. It is the man who was murdered.
background
Hitchcock's early work Young and Innocent , which is based to some extent on the novel A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey , fits in well with the British films of the creative phase before 1939, even if it was never very well known. Many details already indicate how Hitchcock's style would develop. The film is peppered with humor and ambiguous scenes and also shows a very clever build-up of tension. The motif of the innocent persecuted appears again in several of Hitchcock's later films.
The long shot in the “Grand Hotel” is particularly unusual. It first wanders over what is happening in the hall as a long shot , then goes to the band playing with a camera crane and enlarges more and more of the drummer's eyes, who finally start to blink. This tracking shot begins at a distance of 145 feet (44.2 m) and ends four inches (about 10.2 cm) in front of the eyes. The shot was shot within two days and its design is reminiscent of a similar scene from Hitchcock's later feature film Notorious , which begins with the recording of a party and ends with a close-up of a key. Also noteworthy is the song played in Jung und Innocent , which is about the "drummer man" (drummer) and thus refers to the murderer.
In a humorous scene, the two "heroes" run away in the middle of a children's birthday party and have to endure all silliness in order not to betray themselves. This scene, which is important for building tension, has been removed in the US version.
In the US, the film was called The Girl Was Young .
Despite an unusually large number of Hitchcock films that have been dubbed in German several times, this one is the only one that has its own GDR dubbed version.
The film was first shown on German television on November 21, 1978 on ZDF .
Cameo
After about 14 minutes of filming, Hitchcock is standing with a camera at the entrance to the justice building (see also cameo ).
Reviews
"Exciting, very humorous detective film that shows Hitchcock already at the height of his ability."
“All in all, the film may be a reserved Hitchcock, but it has that certain touch. Not only was he the master of suspense , and young and innocent proved that his talent for the frugal and fast-paced thriller comedy was unique. In reality it is still unmatched. "
"The film has a more laid-back vibe than most of Hitchcock's previous thrillers, thanks in part to the charm of lead actor Derrick De Marney, and anticipates the successful dash of comedy and suspense contained in A Lady Vanishing ."
synchronization
The German synchronization was created in 1975 by the Arena Synchron Berlin. Kurt Eugen Ludwig was responsible for the script and dialogue .
| role | actor | German voice |
|---|---|---|
| Erica Burgoyne | Nova Pilbeam | Philine Peters-Arnolds |
| Robert Tisdall | Derrick De Marney | Norbert Langer |
| Colonel Burgoyne | Percy Marmont | Eric Vaessen |
| Old Will | Edward Rigby | Arnold Marquis |
| Erica's aunt | Mary Clare | Inge Estate |
| Detective Inspector Kent | John Longden | Claus Jurichs |
| Guy | George Curzon | Edgar Ott |
| Erica's uncle | Basil Radford | Lothar Blumhagen |
| Christine | Pamela Carme | Almut Eggert |
| Detective Sergeant Miller | George Merritt | Gerd Duwner |
| Biggs | JH Roberts | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Police sergeant | HF Maltby | Heinz Theo branding |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for young and innocent . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2003 (PDF; test number: 63 048 DVD).
- ↑ Maurice Yacowar: Hitchcock's British film . Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2010 (new edition), ISBN 9780814334942 , p. 180.
- ↑ Maurice Yacowar: Hitchcock's British film . Wayne State University Press, Detroit 2010 (new edition), ISBN 9780814334942 , pp. 180f.
- ^ Filmlexikon and Spiegel.de .
- ↑ Young and innocent. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 28, 2017 .
- ^ Paul Bryant: Young and Innocent. In: EFilmCritic.com. Retrieved on October 28, 2017 (English, "The movie as a whole may be milquetoast Hitchcock, but the 'touch' is there. He was the Master of more than just suspense, and Young and Innocent proved that his knack for the economic, fast-paced comedy / thriller was unmatched. In fact, it's still unsurpassed. ").
- ^ Mark Duguid: Young and Innocent (1937). In: BFI Screenonline. Retrieved on October 28, 2017 (English, “It [the film] is much lighter in tone than most of Hitchcock's previous thrillers, thanks in part to the easy charm of lead Derrick de Marney, and anticipates the successful blend of comedy and suspense in The Lady Vanishes the following year. ").
- ↑ Young and innocent in the German dubbing index
Web links
- Young and innocent in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Young and innocent in the online film database
- Young And Innocent - Download from the Internet Archive (English)
- Extract from the interview “Mr. Hitchcock, how did you do that? ”With Truffaut