A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 8 nominations
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- TriviaAlfred Hitchcock originally planned to do his cameo as the body floating in the river. A dummy was even constructed to do the shot. The plans were changed and a female body, a victim of the Necktie Murderer, was used instead. Hitchcock instead became one of the members of the crowd who are listening to the speaker on the river bank. The dummy of Hitchcock was used in the typically humorous trailer hosted by Hitchcock.
- GoofsWhen examining the murder scene at the marriage bureau, a police officer brings the victim's handbag out to Inspector Oxford, who correctly holds it with a handkerchief to keep his fingerprints from contaminating the evidence. He then he sticks his ungloved hand inside and feels around, thus contaminating it with his own fingerprints.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Chief Inspector Oxford: Mr. Rusk, you're not wearing your tie.
[Robert Rusk is speechless for a moment]
Robert Rusk: I...
[he drops the trunk that he has just dragged into the room]
- Crazy creditsThe Universal Pictures logo does not appear on this film.
- Alternate versionsThe original UK cinema and initial 1989 CIC video releases were cut by 19 secs by the BBFC to remove shots of underwear removal and closeups of neck strangling from the murder scene. The cuts were restored in all later Universal video and DVD releases.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Dick Cavett Show: Alfred Hitchcock (1972)
Featured review
Hitchcock in 1972 at 73
Hitchcock back in his native land concocting a classic British thriller with a large dose of humor and cruelty. Jon Finch plays the innocent man on the run. Jon Finch ! He was Polanski's Macbeth. A great but uncomfortable presence on the screen. I can't quite explain it. The first time I saw him was in a small but pungent scene as a hustler in John Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday. In Frenzy he falls in several traps, as a character and as an actor. He doesn't have the lightness nor the charm of a Cary Grant but he has a weight of his own that makes Frenzy truly dark. Anna Massey plays the girlfriend, a part that, apparently, was offered to Helen Mirren in 1972 but she turned down, as a young actress she had her eyes set on Jack Nicholson for instance, feeling that Hitchcock was old hat. Maybe she was right, but I wonder if she regrets it. Billie Whitelew is also in the cast plus Alec McCowen as the Inspector from Scotland Yard and Vivien Merchant as his wife in a delicious Hitchcokian touch. If you're a Hitchcock fan I'm sure you've seen it but if you haven't, you must.
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- Also known as
- Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy
- Filming locations
- The Globe pub, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London, England, UK(pub where Blaney, Babs and Forsythe work)
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- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $4,940
- Runtime1 hour 56 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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