I really do like Hitchcock
So this starts off as a gentle comedy, even as a comedy of errors. A few travellers are stuck at a hotel somewhere in Europe. An avalanche has stopped the trains. So people have to share rooms. I wonder if this where we get the trope of the uninhibited Swedish/German woman undressing
There is some cheese cake scenes of lithe young ladies. There is a switch of POV characters, as we don't meet the male lead until about 20 minutes into the film
In a scene which modern hollywood would not replicate. Our male lead blackmails the female lead by annoucing that he would tell everyone she invited him into the room. A bit of foreshadowing there contrasting one of the minor characters An up and coming barrister who is having an affair. Interestingly this man is carrying a Colt 45 on his person.
A good way off calling someone a bastard
A joke about baseball being simply rounders
A funny line. When a local Oxford educated jackbooter is struck over the head. His assailant quips well I went to Cambridge, Hitchcock actually remembers that people do come round from a blow on the head
I liked the man, trying to get cricket scores from an unexpected phone call from London. I do remember things like that happening pre interent
The pretty big nose for such small glasses- is that anti Italian discrimination? As the ``friends of ours would say'' The two gents who are sharing a bed. One is not wearing bottoms... his companion was a guardsman... I wonder if there is a subtext here
I do wonder if Ms Froy leaving the train at the end is a more cold blooded act than the film lets us consider. Everyone else was distracted.. she could make her escape
Great fun.. serious and silly
