Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Drama
Hitchcock has often been accused of lack of ambition in his choice of subjects; but more correctly was simply lacking the tenacity to defend his failures, despite them frequently being of greater interest than his successes.
Which brings us to ‘Under Capricorn’.
With a plot that in places resembles both ‘Rebecca’ and ‘Gaslight’ and with a cast that includes a number of Hitchcock veterans, it was clearly a film Hitchcock cared deeply about and a remarkable technical feat. But was a critical and commercial disaster which Hitchcock just wanted to put behind him and move on.
But it remains his most underrated film and continues to deserve reappraisal. @RichardChatten