Under Capricorn

Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense!
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  • Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 19, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1949
  • Label: KL Studio Classics

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User Ratings: 2,465
Rating: 2/4 -- Talky and static, with little of Hitchcock's trademark suspense. The costume drama was not his metier, and he wisely decided to stay out of the genre after this. Full Review
TV Guide
Mar 3, 2014
A strangely unexciting but emotionally intriguing Hitchcock costume drama with echoes of Rebecca and Suspicion. Full Review
Time Out
Jun 24, 2006
Rating: 9/10 -- What it was is simply, as Truffaut stated, beautiful, and a deeply felt study of how people torture themselves and each other. Full Review
PopMatters
Jul 13, 2018
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. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: C+ -- Despite star power (Ingrid Bergman), this historical drama is one of Hitchcoçk's few weaak films. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Aug 12, 2012
Giddily atypical in its style even as it explores lurid new byways of Hitchcock's familiar obsessions.
New Yorker
Mar 3, 2014
Rating: 2/5 -- It seems that neither Miss Bergman nor Mr. Hitchcock has tangled here with stuff of any better than penny-dreadful substance and superfical demands. Full Review
New York Times
Mar 25, 2006

Product Description:

This historical melodrama, a true rarity for Alfred Hitchcock, was the last film produced by Hitchcock's own Transatlantic Pictures. Set in 1831 Australia, the film takes Hitchcock's enduring fascination with the underdog despised by the world and applies it to a social drama of class and wealth stretched across the British empire. In the past, Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten) was an Irish stablehand brash enough to elope with the aristocratic daughter of the estate, Lady Henrietta (Ingrid Bergman). When her brother tried to stop them he was killed, and Sam was convicted of his murder. The film finds Sam and Henrietta resettled in Sydney. Sam has grown wealthy, and Henrietta has taken to drinking, both in a futile attempt to erase the memory and the stigma of the murder. When Henrietta's handsome distant cousin, Charles Adare (Michael Wilding), comes to visit he tries to console and revitalize her. But Adare falls in love with his cousin while a scheming Milly (Margaret Leighton, playing the family's odd, enigmatic housekeeper) sees an opportunity to claim Sam for herself. This tangle of emotions and interests hatches a murder plot and social scandal before the conflict between Sam and Adare comes to its climax, and a dark secret is revealed.

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  • UPC: 738329228699
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