An average movie

Honestly, I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but since I'm a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock, I was really eager to check it out. Basically, it is one of his very old silent features and, honestly, I had a hard time to care about the whole thing. I mean, the whole thing was rather oddly constructed. At first, it seemed to be a tale about loyalty and honor but, at the end of the day, it is pretty much 4 segments glued to one and another without much cohesion. The first part, which was the best, reminded me somehow of what Harry Potter could have been if they removed all the magic elements. Then , the main character got married with a gold-digger. Then, he got to France (!) where he became a ballroom dancer for hire and, in the last part, he went back home from Marseilles, apparently starving and delirious. It was rather funny to see the same actor from ‘The Lodger’, another old feature directed by Hitchcock but the whole thing was just terribly messy and rather misogynic (indeed, the guy keeps getting screwed by different women during the whole story and they were all pretty devilish). To conclude, even though it was not really bad, it remains a rather odd picture but I guess it is still worth a look, especially if you are interested in Alfred Hitchcock’s work.

6/10