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Ireland, torn by civil war and struck by poverty: Chronically
unemployed wannabe sailor Captain Boyle (Edward Chapman), his
resolute wife Juno (Sara Allgood) and their kids Mary (Kathleen O'Regan)
and one-armed Johnny (John Laurie) are informed that they have made a big
inheritance by handsome solicitor Bentham (John Longden), whom Mary soon
falls in love with. The Boyles immediately start spending the money they
haven't even yet received, and it seems at their house, it's party all the
time ... until it's found out that they haven't really inherited anything
at all, and Bentham - who has in the meantime disappeared - has only
claimed this to get into Mary's panties ... and successfully so, since he
has knocked her up. Captain doesn't want to live with the shame, expels
his daughter and goes on a drinking spree. Juno decides to leave home with
her daughter, to stay at her sisters, when the news hit her that Johnny
was killed in a terrorist attack he was forced into ... One of
Alfred Hitchcock's weakest efforts, since unlike pretty much all of his
other films, this one doesn't seem one bit cinematic and rather like a
stageplay caught on camera. The actors all overact, which might work on
stage but not in the movies, the camera remains static most of the time as
if it was placed somewhere in the auditorium, and the very limited number
of sets would actually come in handy in a theatrical production. Now sure,
this film was actually based on a stageplay, but still, Hitchcock made
very little out of it, especially considering his track record of
masterpieces. Not really worth your while, not even if you're a
Hitchcock enthusiast - still, it might have some obscurity value.
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