Under Capricorn
Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 19, 2018
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten & Michael Wilding | |
Performer: | Harcourt Williams, Jack Watling, Cecil Parker, Margaret Leighton, Denis O'Dea & Ronald Adam | |
Directed by | Alfred Hitchcock | |
Edited by | Bert Bates | |
Screenplay by | James Bridie | |
Original story by | Helen Simpson | |
Composition by | Richard Addinsell | |
Produced by | Alfred Hitchcock & Sidney Bernstein | |
Director of Photography: | Jack Cardiff |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: C+ --
Despite star power (Ingrid Bergman), this historical drama is one of Hitchcoçk's few weaak films.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 9/10 --
What it was is simply, as Truffaut stated, beautiful, and a deeply felt study of how people torture themselves and each other.
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PopMatters
Rating: 3/4 --
Hitchcock was trying something new here, a melodrama where the terror comes from within, from the rot created by burying secrets, both for Henrietta and for the nation of Australia as a whole.
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From the Front Row
A strangely unexciting but emotionally intriguing Hitchcock costume drama with echoes of Rebecca and Suspicion.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/4 --
Under Capricorn has long been considered one of Alfred Hitchcock's weakest features, even by Hitchcock himself.
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Creative Loafing
Under Capricorn is overlong and talky, with scant measure of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller tricks.
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Variety
Rating: B+ --
The character-driven dark film has a poignant romanticism that is not thought of when you think of a Hitchcock film.
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Product Description:
This historical melodrama, a true rarity for Alfred Hitchcock, was the last film produced by Hitchcock's own Transatlantic Pictures. Set in 1831 Australia, the film takes Hitchcock's enduring fascination with the underdog despised by the world and applies it to a social drama of class and wealth stretched across the British empire. In the past, Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten) was an Irish stablehand brash enough to elope with the aristocratic daughter of the estate, Lady Henrietta (Ingrid Bergman). When her brother tried to stop them he was killed, and Sam was convicted of his murder. The film finds Sam and Henrietta resettled in Sydney. Sam has grown wealthy, and Henrietta has taken to drinking, both in a futile attempt to erase the memory and the stigma of the murder. When Henrietta's handsome distant cousin, Charles Adare (Michael Wilding), comes to visit he tries to console and revitalize her. But Adare falls in love with his cousin while a scheming Milly (Margaret Leighton, playing the family's odd, enigmatic housekeeper) sees an opportunity to claim Sam for herself. This tangle of emotions and interests hatches a murder plot and social scandal before the conflict between Sam and Adare comes to its climax, and a dark secret is revealed.
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- Sales Rank: 22,238
- UPC: 738329228699
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