Fresh
Giddily atypical in its style even as it explores lurid new byways of Hitchcock's familiar obsessions.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
Under Capricorn
Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense!
1949 · 1h 58m · Approved
Crime, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Under Capricorn
Overview
A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.
Director and cast
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Ingrid Bergman as Lady Henrietta Flusky
- Joseph Cotten as Sam Flusky
- Michael Wilding as Hon. Charles Adare
- Margaret Leighton as Milly
- Cecil Parker as The Governor
- Denis O'Dea as Mr. Corrigan
- Jack Watling as Winter
- Harcourt Williams as The Coachman
- John Ruddock as Mr. Potter
- Bill Shine as Mr. Banks
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
56%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Under Capricorn is overlong and talky, with scant measure of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller tricks.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
A strangely unexciting but emotionally intriguing Hitchcock costume drama with echoes of Rebecca and Suspicion.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
It seems that neither Miss Bergman nor Mr. Hitchcock has tangled here with stuff of any better than penny-dreadful substance and superfical demands.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Shot in astonishingly elaborate long takes, this is the kind of film that finds the most brilliant poetry in the slightest movement of the camera -- a paradigm of cinematic expression.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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