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Murder!
Sign in to saveMurder! is a 1930 British mystery thriller film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman. Written by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Walter C. Mycroft, based on the 1928 novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, it is Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Blackmail (1929) and Juno and the Paycock (1930).
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6.0When 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.
Cast
- Herbert Marshall as Sir John Menier
- Edward Chapman as Ted Markham
- Esme Percy as Handel Fane
- Norah Baring as Diana Baring
- Phyllis Konstam as Doucie Markham
- Marie Wright as Miss Mitcham
Themes
- amnesia
- based on novel or book
- black and white
- murder investigation
- murder trial
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Ratings
IMDb
6.3/10
7,182 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
83%
- Year
- 1930
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Rated
- TV-PG
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Murder!
- Film.image
- Murder! (1930) poster.jpg
- Film.caption
- American theatrical release poster
- Film.director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Film.screenplay
- Alfred HitchcockWalter MycroftAlma Reville
- Film.based_on
- Enter Sir John byClemence DaneHelen Simpson
- Film.producer
- John Maxwell(uncredited)
- Film.starring
- Herbert MarshallNorah Baring
- Film.cinematography
- J. J. Cox
- Film.editing
- Rene Marrison(under the supervision of Emile de Ruelle)
- Film.music
- John Reynders(musical director)
- Film.studio
- British International Pictures
- Film.distributor
- Wardour Films
- Film.runtime
- 102 minutes
- Film.country
- United Kingdom
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $200,000
- Film.gross
- $600,000 (est.)
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 104
- FilmAffinity ID
- 537425
- Image
- Murder!.jpg
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- review score
- 84%
- capital cost
- 200000
- Commons category
- Murder!
- publication date
- 1931-05-27
- title
- Murder!
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8 sectionsContents
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- Cast
- Production
- Music
- Copyright status and home media
- References
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Murder! is a 1930 British mystery thriller film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring and Edward Chapman. Written by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Walter C. Mycroft, based on the 1928 novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, it is Hitchcock's third all-talkie film, after Blackmail (1929) and Juno and the Paycock (1930).
==Plot== thumb|thumbtime=10|Murder! (1930)|left Diana Baring, a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. The poker used to commit the murder is at Diana's feet, but she has no memory of what happened during the minutes that the crime was committed. The two young women are thought to have been rivals, and the police arrest her. Diana withholds some important information deliberately, to protect something about the identity of a man that she will not name.