#Derrick de Marney

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Blond Cheat, 1938

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That's what I like about you. You're different.

Young and Innocent (1937) | dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Things to Come (1936) William Cameron Menzies

September 18th 2024

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Derrick De Marney, Nova Pilbeam, and John Longden in Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1937)

Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, John Longden, George Curzon, Basil Radford, Pamela Carne. Screenplay: Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood, Anthony Armstrong, based on a novel by Josephine Tey. Cinematography: Bernard Knowles. Art direction: Alfred Junge. Film editing: Charles Frend. Music: Jack Beaver, Louis Levy.

If Alfred Hitchcock hadn't made The 39 Steps (1935) before Young and Innocent, the later film might be taken for a somewhat less tightly plotted and certainly less well-cast sketch for the earlier one. Instead of Robert Donat as the man wrongly accused of murder on the run with Madeleine Carroll as his reluctant accomplice, we get the considerably lower-wattage Derrick De Marney and Nova Pilbeam. Young and Innocent (released in America as The Girl Was Young) feels almost like a retread, in which Hitchcock is trying out a few things that he'll use with more finesse in later films but isn't concerned with much in the way of plausibility and motivation. There is, for example, the focus on the hands when Erica Burgoyne (Pilbeam) is trapped in a car that's sliding into a sinkhole, and Robert Tisdall (De Marney) reaches out to grasp her. We'll see it again with variations in Saboteur (1942) and North by Northwest (1959), but there with more integration into the plot; here the sinking car seems to be only a gimmick introduced to allow Hitchcock to play with suspense-building techniques. There's also a long tracking crane shot that gradually focuses in on the villain (George Curzon) with a give-away tic that anticipates the tracking shot in Notorious (1946) that ends up on the key in Ingrid Bergman's hand. Hitchcock also uses Young and Innocent to exploit his well-known fear of the police, this time by mocking them, as when two cops are forced to hitch a ride with a farmer hauling livestock in his cart: When they complain about how crowded the cart is, the farmer tells them it was only built for ten pigs. Otherwise, Young and Innocent is agreeably nonchalant about plot essentials: Why was Tisdall mentioned in the murdered woman's will? Why did everyone assume that when he ran for help after discovering her body he was actually fleeing the scene of the crime? Why does he flee from the courtroom instead of sticking around to plead his case? Why does Erica so swiftly believe in his innocence? The film is nonsense, but it's enjoyable nonsense if you turn off such questions and go along for the ride. The screenplay, loosely based on a novel by Josephine Tey, is credited to Charles Bennett, Edwin Greenwood, and Anthony Armstrong, but I suspect it was much reworked by Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, who is credited with "continuity," to allow for the director's experiments in suspense.

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Derrick De Marney

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things to come, william cameron menzies 1936

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Nova Pilbeam in Young and Innocent (1937).

Nova Pilbeam looks a bit like Emma Watson and her plummy voice is just wonderful.

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YOUNG AND INNOCENT (Jeune et innocent) - Alfred Hitchcock (1937) 

Robert Tisdall est accusé d’un meurtre qu’il n’a pas commis. Ses liens avec la victime, sa présence sur les lieux, tout l’accuse… Et si le véritable coupable était l’accusateur : la Justice ? Après le terrible Sabotage (Agent secret), Hitchcock choisit d’adopter un ton plus léger. En signant Young and Innocent (Jeune et Innocent), il renouait avec l’humour de ses premières comédies. Il inscrivit…

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Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman | H G Wells Things To Come (1936) | Full Movie

.. Things to Come (also known in promotional material as H. G. Wells' Things to Come) is a 1936 British black-and-white science fiction film from United Artists, produced by Alexander Korda, directed by William Cameron Menzies, and written by H. G. Wells. The film stars Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Maurice Braddell, Sophie Stewart, Derrick De Marney, and Ann Todd. In 1940, businessman John Cabal, living in the city of Everytown in southern England, cannot enjoy Christmas Day as the news speaks of possible war. His guest, Harding, shares his worries, while another friend, the over-optimistic Pippa Passworthy, believes that it will not come to pass, and if it does, it will accelerate technological progress. An aerial bombing raid on the city that night results in general mobilisation and then global war with the unnamed enemy. Cabal becomes a Royal Air Force pilot and serves bravely, even attempting to rescue an enemy pilot he has shot down. Raymond Massey as John Cabal/Oswald Cabal Edward Chapman as Pippa Passworthy/Raymond Passworthy Ralph Richardson as Rudolf, "The Boss" Margaretta Scott as Roxana Black/Rowena Cabal Cedric Hardwicke as Theotocopulos Maurice Braddell as Dr. Edward Harding Sophie Stewart as Mrs Cabal Derrick De Marney as Richard Gordon Ann Todd as Mary Gordon Pearl Argyle as Catherine Cabal Kenneth Villiers as Maurice Passworthy Never Miss An Upload, Join the channel. https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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Young and Innocent (1937)

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Der unschuldige Mordverdächtige trifft auf die junge Tochter des Polizeichefs. Offensichtlich zufrieden mit ihren jeweiligen Attributen, folgen sie dem bewährten Hitchcock-Prinzip.

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Blond Cheat, 1938

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DERRICK DE MARNEY and NOVA PILBEAM in YOUNG AND INNOCENT (1937) | dir. ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) John Paddy Carstairs

October 19th 2024

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Bill (Derrick de Marney) and Charles (Marius Goring) wake up the next morning after their drinking session. Bill is in Charles’s bed and Charles is in the bathtub looking adorably dishevelled! His hair! Marius had the most beautiful thick, wavy, red gold hair. I don’t even mind the moustache! Flying Fifty-Five (1939) mariusgoring.com

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