Frenzy
1972, NR, 116 min.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey.

Universal Hitchcock Series: Frenzy is one of the great latter-day Hitchcocks; great technique, great suspense, and very black humor drive this tale of an innocent man hunted by Scotland Yard for a series of sex murders.

This article appears in August 20 • 1999 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.