Last night, because of DR John G, for the first time since summer 1972, I watched Alfred Hitchcock's wonderful Frenzy. As soon as the credits began, I was back in a Pittsburgh movie theatre in late June, 1972, where I saw the film with my friend George Brashears. I saw it again several months later in Middletown, when I moved back to my parents' home to hide out and lick my wounds after a disastrous teaching experience at a Pennsylvania college. I remembered bits of the film 50 years later, like the wonderfully comic scenes with Alec McCowen and Vivien Merchant, but I'd forgotten how unsettling the rape-murder of Barbara Leigh-Hunt was. After so many years of watching BBC programs, I was surprised to see Jean Marsh, Billie Whitelaw, and Bernard Cribbins.
DR John G, did you recognize Hyacinth Bucket's (pronounced Bouquet's) husband Richard?
I was also gobsmacked to see the screenplay was by Anthony Shaffer. The things you learn!
