Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn
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Movie Reviews of Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn
Movie Review: eva25at is ignorant
Summary: 3 Stars
...First of all this is NOT a Selznic picture. Hitchcock was free from his contract with selznic after "The Paradine Case." Hitchcock produced this under his own Transatlantic Productions. Selznic didn't have the remotest thing to do with this movie! No this isn't as good as most Hitchcock movies but it is entertaining.
Movie Review: Not one of Hitchcock's better movies
Summary: 2 Stars
I love some of Hitchcock's earlier films like The 39 Steps, Rich and Strange, and the original 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, but this was a disappointment. It's your typical Hollywood melodrama, a hackneyed, talky chick flick that runs 40 minutes too long. It's rare that I find a movie so unengaging that I want to quit in the middle of watching, but I was seriously tempted with this one. The only interesting part was a dreamy 10 minute sequence close to the end where (SPOILER) the jealous maid tries to poison the lady of the house. That was the only really "Hitchcockian" thing in the whole movie.
I've never been a fan of Ingrid Bergman, finding her overrated in the looks department, but it wasn't until watching this movie that I realized that not only was she not the looker Hollywood hyped her up to be, but the woman couldn't act! Under Capricorn would've been immeasurably better (though still not great) with a different lead actress.
Movie Review: Ponderous period drama from The Master
Summary: 2 Stars
"Under Capricorn" was the second and last film (after "Rope") that Hitchcock completed under the ill-fated Transatlantic banner the vehicle has set up after release from his Selznick contract. Like "Rope", Hitchcock experimented with long takes and complicated camera movements.
Unlike "Rope", however, "Under Capricorn" is a talky bore. Hitchcock had little feel for this type of material - a period drama set in colonial Australia. The film is not helped by being entirely shot in a studio - a limitation of the shooting style and budget - so has no local flavour whatsoever which is what this type of film needs.
Even Hitchcock himself admitted this was a dud. For Hitchcock completists only.