Play Charles Bennett, also wrote key b&w Hitches.
Anny Ondra, Donald Calthrop, John Longden, Cyril Ritchard, Sara Allgood (mum), Charles Paton (dad) and Joan Barry (Anny's voice).
Ph. Jack Cox. Uncredited and possibly fictitious contribution from Michael Powell!
Longden is very leaden in some (though not all) places. Rest of cast good esp. Calthrop. Camera fluid, cutting evidence of Eisenstein, looks crude at times, clever at others (her memory of dead arm cuts to tramp's, scream is landlady's at discovering corpse).
Tricks us by beginning as silent with effective expressionistic Flying Squad scene, then effortlessly switches to sound. Despite occasional staginess, has plenty of Hitchcocky stuff going on.
Hitch seems obsessed by the sound of car klaxons going off all the time, which is quite endearing, and offsets the unenjoyable music.
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