Worst Hitchcock ever
Or is it Under Capricorn
STEVE HOLT !!
Young and Innocent is the least good Hitchcock I have seen, still enjoyable though. Under Capricorn is actually one of my favorites.
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I don't think this is his worst, it as okWhen there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
Jamaica Inn or Torn Curtain (I think it was - the one with Julie Andrews) anyday... I didn't think Secret Agent was terrible, just that the hero was not interesting - Thank god for The General, he saved this film from being a bore.
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I found Secret Agent very interesting. The Hero in this film is a very confused character. And Peter Lorre makes this film more strong.
I think Under Capricorn is a great film. Brilliant Drama.
I think the worst is Frenzy.
This is the worst Hitchcock film I've seen, but I've not yet seen the ones that are usually considered the worst, for example: Under Capricorn, I Confess, Jamaica Inn and Number 17.
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They have the worst accents ever in the film Jamaica Inn
STEVE HOLT !!
I Confess...one of his worst? I disagree!
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Not in my opinion, at least not quite. Admittedly not his best by a long shot but so far I've seen 28 of his films and Torn Curtain has got to be my least favourite.
Torn Curtain should have been a lot better, Secret Agent on a limited budget tried it's best. Gielgud was a delight & Lorre was wonderfully OTT.
Certainly this is one of the lesser works by Hitch, but not his worst film. I think Secret Agent is at least in the same league than The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and certainly is slightly better than some other of his films, like Jamaica Inn, Under Capricorn, Waltzes from Vienna, Aventure malgache, The Paradine Case, or Torn Curtain.
6/10
I can't judge if this was his worst ever, but I certainly thought this was ridiculous, completely unbelievable, a strange mixture of screwball comedy and high drama. I only finished watching this because it was a rare chance to see a young John Gielgud. Gielgud's reactions to his apparent 'death' at the start were witty but completely unrealistic (how about his family and friends?), and there was nothing that could remotely qualify Madeleine Carroll (alternately irritatingly feisty and irritatingly lovelorn), Peter Lorre as the flamboyant, leering 'General' and Robert Young as spies. A German baron posing as a boyishly brash American? A cartoon Mexican with a temper sticking out like a sore thumb acting as a spy? Give me a break. All the 'evidence' these miserable parodies of sleuths collected was completely accidental and laughable. Then there were some atrociously fake miniatures. The costumes were nothing like First World War fashions. What a wretched movie! If Hitchcock had only made garbage like this, I would say he was vastly overrated.
Dicky
Hitchcock's Original Choice for the leading man role was Robert Donat. But Robert Donat wasn't feeling well. So he ended up casting John Gielgud. Hitchcock was aware of some of the errors. He mentioned them in some of his interviews.
Some of his silent films (like Easy Virtue) and earlier sound films (like The Skin Game) were definitely worse. I personally find Mr. and Mrs. Smith rather inane and fairly abysmal as well. If you ask me, films like Secret Agent, Jamaica Inn, and Torn Curtain (to name a few mentioned on this thread) are actually underrated.
shareIt's not my favourite. I'd call The Farmer's Wife the worst though, although I haven't seen most of those mentioned here (which doesn't bode well...).
shareWatched this for the first time,it wasn't too bad,Peter Lorre was great and there was some excellent scene's in it.
I think the worse Hitchcock is his remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much.
Although I've not seen all his films.