YOUNG AND INNOCENT

“Hitchcock uses all the signs in his visual vocabulary to tell one of his favorite stories: fugitive hero unjustly accused of murder. Yet this is also a story of youth and innocence triumphant — a light entertainment, a souffle made by a master chef.” - Mark Fleischmann, Criterion Collection

YOUNG AND INNOCENT is one of Hitchcock’s most significant pre-war thrillers, starring Derrick de Marney as an unlucky man who turns fugitive after finding the body of a young actress washed up on a beach…an ordinary guy thrown into extraordinary circumstances, much like many of his later films’ protagonists. Nova Pilbeam is the beautiful young woman whose help he enlists, and George Curzon is the jealous ex-husband who harbors a terrible secret.