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Rich and Strange, released in the United States as East of Shanghai, is a 1931 British romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. The film was adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Val Valentine from the 1930 novel by Dale Collins.
With Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann. Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Alfred Hitchcock
- 1932-06-13
Accountant Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife, Emily (Joan Barry), lead lives of tedious regimentation -- until a kindly uncle gives them a small fortune. Fred quits his job and they race off...
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- Henry Kendall
- Alfred Hitchcock
- British International Pictures
Fred and Emily Hill lead a boring life in the London suburbs. They decide to escape from it all by writing to a rich relative and asking for their inheritance in advance. Using the money they go on a world cruise and get into a series of misadventures.
Overview. Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point. Alfred Hitchcock. Director. Dale Collins. Novel. Val Valentine. Writer. Alma Reville.
“Rich and Strange,” Alfred Hitchcock’s second flub of a cruise ship comedy, is proof that the director’s only preferred method of sea transport… should be a Lifeboat. Hitchcock, ever a connoisseur of elaborate elopements and luxury voyages, made it one of his career themes to incorporate his own hobbyist travel into his movies.
Rich and Strange, released in the United States as East of Shanghai, is a 1931 British romance film directed by Alfred Hitchcock during his time in the British film industry. The film was adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma Reville, and Val Valentine from the 1930 novel by Dale Collins.
