Murder!

Murder! (1930)

Timing: 1:42 (102 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1930-07-31

Country

United Kingdom

Production

British International Pictures

Genre

Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Budget

$0

Revenue

$0

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Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Actors

Herbert Marshall, Edward Chapman, Esme Percy, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Marie Wright, Miles Mander, Gus McNaughton, Donald Calthrop, S. J. Warmington
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

John Maxwell

Operator

Jack E. Cox

Composer

John Reynders

Artist

Peter Proud

Audition

Editing

Rene Marrison
All team (15)

• Hitchcock’s innovation lay in voicing the hero’s thoughts for the first time on the soundtrack.
• Herbert Marshall's first role in a sound film.
• Hitchcock's cameo – a man walking past the scene of the crime.
• Hitchcock's innovation lay in the fact that the hero's thoughts were voiced over for the first time.
• Hitchcock's cameo: a man walking past the crime scene.
• The scene in which Sir John, played by Herbert Marshall (1890-1966), contemplates in front of a mirror had to be filmed with the participation of an orchestra of thirty people located right next to the set, as it proved impossible to add the sound later.