Stage Fright
1950, NR, 125 min.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Marlene Dietrich, Jane Wyman, Richard Todd, Michael Wilding.

This British Hitchcock film is generally regarded as one of the director’s least successful films. It has a classic Hitchcock scenario in which a man is mistaken for a murderer, but the film lacks humor and suspense. Even the great cast is unable to make much headway with this torpid thriller.

This article appears in August 3 • 2001.

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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.