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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: April 15, 1950 |
Starring:
Alastair Sim, Hector MacGregor, Jane Wyman, Joyce Grenfell, Kay Walsh, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Miles Malleson, Richard Todd, Sybil Thorndike
Summary:
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
This uneven but fascinating thriller from Alfred Hitchcock is good - how could it be otherwise - but it is not the director's best. [07 Aug 2010, p.31]
Stage Fright has serious fun with the business of acting, a trade that calls for both the cold, calculating Charlotte and the committed, caring Eve alike to transform into other people. And Hitchcock appreciates the charged atmosphere of an empty theatre, as well as the frisson when the doors are closed, the lights go down and audiences wait expectantly in silence, never knowing quite what will happen next.
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Alfred Hitchcock doesn't stress melodrama throughout. He plays a surprising number of sequences strictly for lightness. Also, he has a choice cast to put through its paces, and there's not a bad performance anywhere [In this adaption by Alma Reville of a novel by Selwyn Jepson]. The dialog has purpose, either for a chuckle or a thrill, and the pace is good.
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So-so. [23 Jan 1997, p.9B]
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