Under Capricorn

Name: Under Capricorn
Genre: Drama, Romance, Crime
Released: October 8, 1949
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Bill Shine, Cecil Parker, Denis O'Dea, Harcourt Williams, Ingrid Bergman

1949

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: October 8, 1949 | TV-PG

Starring: Bill Shine, Cecil Parker, Denis O'Dea, Harcourt Williams, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Watling, John Ruddock, Joseph Cotten, Margaret Leighton, Michael Wilding

Summary: A young gentleman goes to Australia where he reunites with his now married childhood sweetheart, only to find out she has become an alcoholic and harbors dark secrets.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Crime

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 117 min

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Dave Kehr

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. Read full review

The Guardian Joe Walsh

If Under Capricorn is not Hitch's crowning glory, it is undeniably his most underrated film. Read full review

Jake Cole

Though Under Capricorn’s dark and twisty narrative eventually unearths everyone’s secrets, it’s the swooning camera that most fully taps into the class and sexual tensions that consume the characters. Read full review

The Telegraph Antonia Malloy

Despite its great cast, this is certainly not one of Hitchcock's triumphs. [28 Sep 2013, p.40]

Empire David Parkinson

This has many more plus points than critics at the time were willing to admit. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

It is an overlong, overlabored essay on the torments of conscience and love which Mr. Hitchcock has beautifully filmed in Technicolor but pointed in glaring blacks and whites. Read full review

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Under Capricorn is overlong and talky, with scant measure of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller tricks. Read full review

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