Alfred Hitchcock has made dozens of movies you haven’t seen. And not only silent ones.
One of the films that’ve slipped through the cracks is this pretty uneventful crime story. The pluses include Charles Laughton’s mincing performance and ridiculous costumes. Also, the freezing winds of the rocky shores of Cornwall. The plot twists (based on a Daphne Du Maurier novel) are all predictable from many knots away. A product of its time, I suppose, but not really anything you need to put at the top of your list. I saw a pretty shitty print, though, so maybe I am being harsh.
