Frenzy

This article is about the film Frenzy. For the album by Split Enz see Frenzy (album). For the arcade game, see Frenzy (video game).

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Split Enz - Frenzy (album) - Frenzy (video game)

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Frenzy (1972) is a crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and is the second last feature film of his extensive career.

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1972 - Crime - Thriller - Film - Directed - Alfred Hitchcock

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The film is based upon the novel Goodbye Picadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Berne and was adapted for the screen by Anthony Shaffer.

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Novel - Arthur La Berne - Anthony Shaffer

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After a decade of films depicting political intrigue and espionage, Hitchcock returned to the murder genre with this film, which told the story of a serial killer who strangled several women in London. The narrative made use of the familiar Hitchcock theme of an innocent man overwhelmed by circumstantial evidence and wrongly assumed to be guilty.

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Espionage - Murder - Serial killer - London

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The film starred Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Vivien Merchant, Jean Marsh and Elsie Randolph.

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Jon Finch - Barry Foster - Alec McCowen - Billie Whitelaw - Anna Massey - Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Vivien Merchant - Jean Marsh - Elsie Randolph

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Hitchcock set and filmed Frenzy in London after many years making films in the United States. The film opens with a sweeping shot along the River Thames to the Tower Bridge, and while the interior scenes were filmed at Pinewood Studios, much of the location filming was done in and around Covent Garden and was an homage to the London of Hitchcock's childhood. The son of a Covent Garden merchant, Hitchcock filmed several key scenes showing the area as the working produce market that it was. Aware that the area's days as a market were numbered, Hitchcock wanted to record the area as he remembered it. Certainly the area as seen in the film still exists, but the market no longer operates from there, and the buildings seen in the film are now occupied by restaurants and nightclubs, and the laneways where merchants and workers once carried their produce are now occupied by tourists and streetperformers.

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United States - Thames - Tower Bridge - Pinewood Studios - Covent Garden

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