Thanks Alfred Hitchcock. This makes up for making me sit through "Topaz" and "Torn Curtain".

Apart from a murder which is LOVELY (ahem) and a scene involving a dead woman's hand - both surprisingly nasty for their time - plus some almost Edward Blakesque dinner gags, this isn't the best I've seen from Hitchcock.

muito diferente do que eu espero do hitchcock. mas a surpresa é boa, meio punk, meio sem regras. o gordo nunca esteve tão mau, e já esteve tão engraçado. um bom trabalho.

... lovely... lovely... It's a black comedy blended with classic Hitchcock themes and styles.

Smart and actually quite funny, but it is hardly Hitchcock at his most effective or powerful.

For pure laughs, it's the funniest Hitchcock I've seen, though admittedly they're laughs over horrible things. What makes it so darkly funny is how sharply it captures the British sensibility to murder, as a tourist attraction, as a quaint little mystery that sells short the disgusting cruelty that it really is.

Leaves a bad taste in the mouth, but it is still a well-made film.

Just a regular tv thriller if you ask me.

Alfred Hitchock really knows how to build up suspense and he does that very well with this movie. The acting was pretty top notch as I believe that with the script as well. Sometimes it goes a little slow, but he Hitchcock really takes his time to let the scene and the story play out and that is were his master of suspense takes its shape. Not my favorite Hitchcock movie, but at least it was good.

Hitchcock is getting older

In some ways an odd mix, with stylistic features that may already have been a little outdated in 1972, yet with a clear attempt at pushing cinematic boundaries, not only in terms of nudity, but with its cold, hard treatment of sexuality, and containing some excellent shots that rival anything in the director's earlier work in terms of the significance conveyed by the movement of the camera. An unusual work, but one that seems to be the work of a director still very much artistically alive.

Ah, Hitchcock, the ultimate hit or miss director, Lovely. The problem with this kind of scenarios is that they are so tightly constructed that they border being ridiculous. Add in an annoying, stupid "hero" and it becomes even more lovely. Sexist, stereotyping, treating the audience as if they were dumb, what can I say, Lovely. In the end, aside from a good musical score and some good acting it was not Lovely at all.