Overview:
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.| Status: | Released (1972-05-25) |
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| Awards: | 3 wins & 8 nominations total |
| Screen: | Arthur La Bern, Anthony Shaffer |
| Productions: | Universal Pictures, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English, Italiano, Français |
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Casts
- 8223: Jon Finch - Richard Ian Blaney
- 8225: Barry Foster - Robert Rusk
- 8228: Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Brenda Margaret Blaney
- 8227: Anna Massey - Barbara Jane 'Babs' Milligan
- 8224: Alec McCowen - Chief Inspector Tim Oxford
- 35314: Vivien Merchant - Mrs. Oxford
- 8226: Billie Whitelaw - Hetty Porter
Crews
- 2636: Alfred Hitchcock - Producer - Production
- 7752: Ron Goodwin - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 7753: Gilbert Taylor - Director of Photography - Camera
- 7755: Sally Nicholl - Casting - Production
- 7757: Robert W. Laing - Art Direction - Art
- 2636: Alfred Hitchcock - Director - Directing
- 7756: Syd Cain - Production Design - Art
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Reviews
John Chard
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Chillingly humorous Hitchcock piece of work. It's always great to take a revisit to Frenzy some years after your last viewing, to re-evaluate it post haste. As a proud Englishman it gives me great pleasure to see the Master back in England capturing the English time frame of Londo ....
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This is one of those thrillers that is in no way a whodunnit as it becomes evident very early on that the killer is who you think it is going to be. But that is not sloppy film making, it is entirely deliberate, for the mystery here is not who is the killer, but will he get away wit ....
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This is probably my least favourite Hitchcock story. It is still cleverly constructed, but somehow it has a vulgarity to it that I rather struggled with. The premiss is a serial killer who has been brutally killing women using a neck tie, then dumping their bodies. The police are baf ....
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