By today's standards, the mystery is hohum (and is in fact a scenario that Hitchcock goes on to reuse many times over in his later superior films) and its solution is very heavily signposted, but even the modern viewer will be aghast! at the cinematic boundaries Hitchcock dares to push in his 1930 black-and-white murder mystery, like his long, cold appraisal of a woman struggling to pull up her knickers as she dresses in a hurry, plus the grisly spectre of a very public suicide, and a whole lot more of what appears to be wild experimentation on the director's part.
★★★★☆
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