1930 · mystery · thriller
Murder!
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock1h 42m1930
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Our read: Murder! (1930) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded mystery · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured mystery / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
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