I just loved the dinner scenes between C.I. Oxford and his wife. Just some of the wittiest dialog and physical humor I've seen in a while. I found Blaney to actually be the least interesting or even least important character in the movie. Finch was fine with what he had. All the supporting cast are what made this movie great.
shareNobody in Frenzy ever gets too much screen time...but I'd say the villainous Bob Rusk makes the most of his, because he's just so funny, flamboyant, creepy, and fascinating.
The tweedy but virile Inspector Oxford probably registers best next -- particuarly in grin-and-bear-it dinnertime battle with his chirpy wife with the gourmet cooking(She's not REALLY a gourmet cook, mind you, just taking courses -- which makes her dishes really dangerous.). Their brief discussion of married sex is telling ("We've only been married eight years, and I can hardly get you to look at me," "That may be so, but I don't knock you about or make you do degrading things") as is the final blow("It looks like we put the wrong man away this time" "What do you mean, WE? YOU put him away.")
Against those others, Richard Blaney -- hot-tempered, a loser, with little ability to take charge and fight back -- rather fades into the woodwork, though we feel his wrong man plight, and Jon Finch was both handsome of face and strong of voice.
PS. A real bonus to the Oxford dinner scenes is how Hitchocck composes the shots: look how all the lamps in the room criss-cross around the Oxfords.
it is absolutely hilarious when he removes the fish from the "soup", and when he is frightened to see what is next for eating, then the relief when he sees chicken with grapes lol
very good scene : )
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