Frenzy (1972) on Netflix
A serial killer strangles women in London with a necktie. The police suspect barman Richard Blaney when his ex-wife Brenda is found murdered.
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Plot summary
London is being terrorized by a killer the newspapers call the Necktie Murderer, who strangles women with a tie. Richard Blaney, a former RAF squadron leader, loses his job behind a pub bar near the Covent Garden produce market, where his friend Bob Rusk sells fruit and vegetables. Broke, he visits Brenda, his ex-wife, who runs a matchmaking agency, and she slips money into his coat. After his ex-wife is found slain, the police make Blaney their prime suspect.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Frenzy (1972)
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Alfred Hitchcock's first choice to play killer Bob Rusk was Michael Caine, who refused the part; Caine later said Hitchcock offered him a role as a sadist who murdered women and never spoke to him again after he turned it down.- Malcolm McDowell was offered a role in Frenzy but turned it down, calling the script 'absolute rubbish,' though he later admitted he regretted missing the chance to work with Hitchcock.
- During filming, Hitchcock's wife and longtime collaborator Alma suffered a stroke, and some scenes had to be shot without him on set so he could care for her.
- Frenzy was the first Alfred Hitchcock film to contain nudity, setting aside the arguable exception of the shower scene in Psycho.
- The son of a Covent Garden produce merchant himself, Hitchcock filmed the market as a personal tribute before it closed; an elderly man who remembered Hitchcock's father working there visited the set and was treated to lunch by the director.
