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  • Actors: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
  • Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writers: Alma Reville, Anthony Armstrong, Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood, Gerald Savory
  • Producers: Edward Black
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 15 Jan 2001
  • Run Time: 79 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004WIAD
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 102,883 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Among Alfred Hitchcock's pre-Hollywood movies, 1938's Young and Innocent is a most unfairly overlooked classic. It's full of themes and stylistic touches that became permanent fixtures in his career. Based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles, the film title refers to the characters' outlook. However Hitchcock characteristically chips away at that innocence with flourishes of macabre humour, such as scenes of a dead rat at the lunch table and a hopeless conference with a defence lawyer, while suspense is heightened in a game of blindman's buff at a children 's party. The story concerns a typically Hitchcockian innocent man (Derrick de Marney) on the run, with a trivial object to find (a raincoat) that will prove his innocence. He's helped by a fiery young girl (Nova Pilbeam) who's unfortunately the daughter of the chief constable, but has some handy first aid skills. There's also an oppressive mother figure in the shape of an overbearing aunt (Mary Clare). Aside from these thematic traits, what remains impressive for viewers new or old is Hitchcock's technical set-pieces: a car sinks into a mineshaft, a railway station is recreated in miniature, and the twitchy-eyed murderer is finally located via an extended aerial tracking shot across a ballroom (pre-empting many similar shots, eg: Notorious). This sequence took two days to accomplish, and demonstrates the director was more than ready to move to the older and less innocent American industry . --Paul Tonks

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Charming Thriller, 12 Nov 2003
By J. Skade "joeskade" (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Young And Innocent [VHS] [1938] (VHS Tape)
This is one of the lesser known delights of the Hitchcock canon. The film is a light concoction containing some deft Hitchcock touches. It revisits the theme of 'The 39 Steps', though less suspenseful and not so sexy and without,of course, the great Robert Donat. A woman's body is washed onto a beach along with the weapon used to strangle her - a raincoat belt (30 years later a similar body, this time naked, would be found in the Thames strangled with a necktie; Hitchcock surely recalling this film when he made 'Frenzy'). Our hero is accused and spends the rest of the film on the run and searching for the missing raincoat. The famous long shot slowly closing in on the villains eyes is still astonishing, but there is much more in this film. The screams of the women who discover the body are unheard, transformed into the screeches of seagulls for example ( a trick used in 'The 39 Steps' with a train instead of the gulls) in this and in many other small examples we see Hitchcock's imaginative storytelling.
Between the brilliant '39 Steps' and the light masterpiece 'The Lady Vanishes' it is easy to see how this film might be passed over. But that would be a mistake - this is a film any Hitchcock admirer can enjoy.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Hitchcock with a gentle difference., 22 Nov 2000
This review is from: Young And Innocent [VHS] [1938] (VHS Tape)
In the middle of all his thrillers, Hitchcock produced "Young & Innocent", which by comparison looks like a pastoral.

In a career which slowly and inevitably focused in on a particular style, this film shows another side of Hitchcock, a side previously seen in silents "The Farmer's Wife" and "The Manxman". These films are like little backwaters and reveal what Hitchcock had up his sleeve beside the thrills and spills.

De Marney discovers the body of a woman on a beach, and is spotted running away from the scene. It is assumed he did the killing, although he is innocent. Police chief's daughter Nova Pilbeam helps him in his fugitive life, and a now-familiar Hitchcock pattern emerges: the innocent man on the run. This plot pattern was used earlier in the 39 Steps and is used once again in Saboteur and, definitively, in North by Northwest.

A nice film, not as urgent as the thrillers around it, which may account for its low profile in the Hitchcock cannon. Look out for the famous dolly across the dancefloor to reveal the position of the real killer -- it sends shivers down the spine every time.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Wrong Man (again) ..., 7 Jul 2006
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"Young and Innocent" is fairly typical Hitchcock fayre; a man is wrongly accused of murder and as he flees from the law ,he befriends an attractive blonde who joins in his quest to clear his name. Sound familiar ? Yes, there are many Hitchcock films with a similar plot. However "Young and Innocent" has some unique set pieces to it's credit ; the child's birthday party, the hayloft scene and the excellent finale in the hotel ballroom to name a few . These help to elevate this enjoyable black and white (minstrel) film above the mundane.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great film shame about the print
Young and Innocent is one of Alfred Hitchcock's less well known 30's films but is richly enjoyable and contains some very intresting period details. Read more
Published on 12 May 2004 by Ed Knowles

3.0 out of 5 stars Usual theme of innocent man chased by police
The theme of the innocent good guy chased for a murder he hasn't committed is a typical Hitchcock situation ("The 39 steps", "North by northwest", just to... Read more
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