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YOUNG AND INNOCENT

12:30   6:20

Tuesday, March 10

Director Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
Screenplay Gerald Savory
Based on A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey
Cinematography Bernard Knowles
1937 | UK | 35mm | Approx. 83 min. | In English

Derrick De Marney, on the run for a crime he didn’t commit, is aided by the young Nova Pilbeam, but they’re almost trapped by a child’s game of blind man’s bluff, with the revelation of the villain a memorable tour de force. Joan Harrison (uncredited) worked on story development.

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“A kind of ‘American Hitchcock film’ ahead of its time.” 
– Claude Chabrol and Eric Rohmer

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