Stage Fright

It is still a good film but is one of Hitchcock's weaker titles overall, but there is one great plot twist at the end and a great performance from Jonathan Cooper and Alastair Sim. It's worthy of a viewing, but it might let down those expecting another Hitchcock masterpiece.

Jane Wyman (Eve Gill), Marlene Dietrich (Charlotte Inwood), and Alastair Sim (Commodore Gill) captivated me from start to finish. I thought Hitchcock's direction was again damn well done in this movie, albeit at times slow moving - a issue I'm noticing time and time again. The plot doesn't necessarily move slow, but Hitchcock's construction of each individual scene does. Nonetheless, in this movie, it most definitely did not take away from how much I enjoyed it and how riveted I was by it.

Flawed logic (showing a lie on screen), but succeeds in audience manipulation (Hitchcock's pleasure) - and in that case it is a success. In Hitchcock's grand oeuvre, this is a dud, but for any other director, it's a watchable, entertaining film.

Certainly not on a par with Hitchcock's classics, but quite watchable and entertaining. Hearing Marlene Dietrich sing "The Laziest Gal in Town" makes Madeline Kahn's performance in Blazing Saddles even funnier.

Biggest landmark for me - I have now seen every Hitchcock from the 50's, 60's, & 70's. As for the movie, it's gorgeously filmed but not his best script, and I don't know what Jane Wyman is doing here (I smell studio involvement).

Watchable, light-hearted and fun at least until the finale. There's a twist at the end that I didn't see coming and while I didn't like it I still found it some what enjoyable. I'd have rated this a bit higher if it had a different ending.

As far as fuck-ups go, you could do much worse than Stage Fright's unreliable narrator. I'm half-inclined to like that sort of thing, and I like it here, but yikes was it obviously an accident. Dietrich felt especially dangerous in this one, and the future Mr. Liz Taylor was also good and complex. The fixed camera on the stairs was pretty cool too, inventing the surveillance footage visual cliché before surveillance cameras even existed in real life. Neat!

dietrich and sim's performance's stood out for me. the flashback didn't bother me like it did for so many others who have seen this. overall, stage fright is certainly good but certainly not amongst my favorite hitch films. i would recommend it tho', especially to fans of his....

Not top tier Hitchcock, but as a film about performing both on stage and in real life, it's definitely quite underrated. Could have used a stronger central plot, but it's far from bad.

This movie is infamous as the case where Hitchcock "cheated". (You'll know it when you see it.) I think it's worth seeing anyway

Though Dietrich gets all the best lines, it's Alastair Sim who struts off with every scene he's in. I was wondering how I was going to sit through this until he showed up. Actually not as bad as many say it is--just not one of Hitchcock's best. It's a bit unfocused in the plot advancement department, leaving one too much time to ponder such questions as "why does Jane Wyman, with two VERY British parents, speak with an American accent?" (the "educated in America" explanation doesn't cut it)

I think I like it more than most Hitchcock fans, but I put this amongst his best because I think Marlene Dietrich is so good and the ending was so unexpected.

Why didn’t he just go out and buy her a new dress? The whole catastrophe could be avoided. Makes me think that the entire movie was a fuss over nothing.

79.000

Capitalizes quite well on its theater motif, each of these characters playing the part, and then another part. Everyone tied together in a knot of duplicitous scheming and deceptive identity games, which make not only for precarious suspense, but also an ironic sense of humor. It's often as funny as it is melodramatic, gathering a strong head of steam until a particularly well-shot finale in an empty theater.

White the plot here isn't quite a riddle wrapped in an enigma like Hitchcock's others, it's the characters that make this one so memorable. Dietrich is amazing as a recently-widowed diva (she intentionally mixes up her maid's name because she can), and Sim steals almost every scene he's in. (If I'm AH's daughter, I'd hate him forever for casting me as "Chubby," though.) Without those characterizations, the plodding police work and the improbability of it all would be just too much.

Meh. Just meh.

Not bad at all.

Can we all just talk about how good Jane Wyman was?

Not one of my favourite Hitchcocks, but Alistair Sim and Marlene Dietrich are a lot of fun & the plot twist was great.

73.375

I found this rather dull, and lacked pretty much any semblance to Hitchcock's "trademark" touch.

It's a good movie with good plot and splendid performance by Alastair Sim but it's, probably, all I can say about it. Just a relaxing project for Hitchcock I guess.

Alastair Sim is great, Marlene Dietrich is good, but the rest of the cast is just meh...

The film succeeds despite its manipulative, third act plot twist. Stage Fright bares the Hitchcock stamp with its dry wit and clever cinematography, raising it above the average murder yarn.

Senaryosu biraz sorunlu olsa da, üstadın yine yönetmenlik şovu yaptığı filmlerden birisi. hitchcock bu filmde oyunculara çok sık yakın plan yapmayı tercih etmiş.bu tercih filmin bazı anlarda gerilim altyapısını çok iyi güçlendirmiş.özellikle sonlara doğru jane wyman ve richard todd'un tiyatrodaki karşılıklı sahnesi gerçekten muazzam.seyirciyi inanılmaz geren bir sahne ve orada wyman'ın yaptığı soğukkanlı hareket gerçekten müthişti.

Without a doubt, one is keenly wary, after watching this haphazard film, that Hitchcock was much less concerned with his overall narrative than in separate scenes. One has the unnerving feeling that he so much enjoyed the parts that he lost, or didn't even bother about, compelling and coherent development. Certainly his audience follows in their gratification of the parts, but whether they will be quite as indifferent to the lack of shape or substance is something else.