Hitchcock's movies

Written by:
Edwin Greenwood
A.R. Rawlinson
Emlyn Williams
Charles Bennett
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis

Cinematography by:
Curt Courant

Production design by:
Alfred Junge
Peter Proud

Film editing by:
Hugh Stewart

Music by:
Arthur Benjamin

Produced by:
Michael Balcon
Ivor Montagu

Cast

Leslie Banks (Bob Lawrence)

Edna Best (Jill Lawrence)

Peter Lorre (Abbott)

Frank Vosper (Ramon Levine)

Hugh Wakefield (Clive)

Nova Pilbeam (Betty Lawrence)

Pierre Fresnay (Louis Bernard)

Cicely Oates (Nurse Agnes)

D.A. Clarke-Smith (inspector Binstead)

George Curzon (Gibson)

Jill and Bob Lawrence are on a winter holiday with their daughter, Betty.
While he is dancing with Jill, the secret agent Louis Bernard is shot to
death. With his last words he tells Jill about an assassination planned by
some terrorists, about to take place in London.
Fearing their plan would be revealed, the spies kidnap Betty and carry her
off to London with them.
Bob and Jill come back to London too, searching for their daughter. They
find the terrorists' refuge in a church, but Bob is captured when he
enters it.
Jill decides to stop the assassination on her own. She goes to Albert Hall,
where the murder is to take place, and screams just the second before
the killer shoots.
Then she comes back to the church with police and frees her family,
shooting the terrorist, who is going to kill Betty, to death.

This movie was doomed to be forgotten after the remake which Hitchcock
himself made in 1956.
However in 1934 this film was a commercial and critical success and it
estabilished a favorite pattern: an investigation of family relationships
within a suspenseful plot.
The "black and white" is also very pictorial. The director could underline
the atmosphere's difference between St. Moritz (white) and London (black).