Alfred Hitchcock spends his British period perfecting a formula he'd return to for the rest of his career: an ordinary man wrongly accused, forced to prove his innocence before the law catches up to him.
What is Young and Innocent about?
Robert Tisdall finds a body on a beach and makes the mistake of running rather than waiting for the police to sort out what happened, a decision that leaves two witnesses convinced he's guilty of murder. On the run and with almost no one willing to believe him, he pulls a magistrate's daughter into a search for whoever is actually responsible, racing to get there before the investigation closes around the wrong man. Hitchcock treats the chase itself as the entertainment — trains, dance halls, a crumbling mine — while the central relationship develops entirely under pressure, with neither character having the luxury of slowing down to figure out what they mean to each other.
About the cast
Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney lead the cast, joined by Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, George Curzon and Basil Radford in supporting roles across the investigation.
Context & significance
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his British filmmaking years, Young and Innocent sits alongside his other 1930s thrillers built around a wrongly accused man and a resourceful woman who chooses to help him. The Crime, Mystery, Romance and Thriller tags reflect a film that treats detection and courtship as the same forward motion, years before Hitchcock would refine the same wrongful-accusation structure in Hollywood. The film moves through a wide cross-section of English settings — seaside towns, a roadside garage, a children's birthday party — using each new location to put the fugitive one step closer to exposure or escape.
Watching Young and Innocent on Ktime
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