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The penultimate film directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock, ''Frenzy'' (1972) was adapted by screenwriter Anthony Shaffer from Arthur La Bern's 1966 novel ''Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square''. It's notable as one of the rare films Hitchcock shot in his native Britain after moving to Hollywood in 1939.
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The penultimate film directed by Creator/AlfredHitchcock, ''Frenzy'' (1972) was adapted by screenwriter Anthony Shaffer from Arthur La Bern's 1966 novel ''Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square''. It's notable as one of the rare films Hitchcock shot in his native Britain after moving to Hollywood in 1939.
1939. It's also the only Hitchcock film to be rated R during its initial release.
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*DramaticDrop: At the very end of the film, Rusk returns to his apartment with a trunk to dispose of the body of another woman he raped and murdered. However, he finds Oxford and Blaney there. When the former comments dryly that he isn't wearing is tie, Rusk realizes that it's over. With that, he drops the trunk to the floor.
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: After a UsefulNotes/HorseRacing tip pays off, Rusk is seen celebrating with an older woman whom he introduces to Richard as his mother (she's played by an uncredited Rita Webb).
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* ClearMyName: Richard is very insistent about this.
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* ClearMyName: Richard is very insistent about this.this, but with his quick temper he hardly helps his case.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Hitchcock's second film to get an R rating, and his only bona fide R-rated picture. This might well be because it was the first film Hitchcock made after the Production Code had been abandoned and ratings were instituted. If he could have filmed [[Film/{{Psycho}} Janet Leigh naked]] he probably would have. (The only other two Hitchcock films to be rated R were ''Film/TornCurtain'' in 1968, allegedly for a scene where one of the heroes falsely shouts "FIRE!" in a theatre and causes a panic, something no less than SCOTUS saw as potentially illegal as both dangerous and false, and ''Psycho'' in 1984, during a particularly reactionary period in the MPAA system's history when more modern slashers were causing a moral panic, resulting in an unusually high number of official X ratings at the time--a sizeable school of thought believes that it could qualify for a hard PG-13 if rated today.)
* DeadMansChest:
** The killer hides a body in a sack that he dumps in the back of a lorry full of sacks of potatoes. He then realises that his tie pin is still clutched in the dead woman's hand and has to retrieve it from the back of the moving lorry.
** In the climax, Oxford and Blaney are interrupted by Rusk dragging a large trunk into his flat, and the implications of what's inside it are clear.
* DeadMansChest:
** The killer hides a body in a sack that he dumps in the back of a lorry full of sacks of potatoes. He then realises that his tie pin is still clutched in the dead woman's hand and has to retrieve it from the back of the moving lorry.
** In the climax, Oxford and Blaney are interrupted by Rusk dragging a large trunk into his flat, and the implications of what's inside it are clear.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Hitchcock's second film to get an R rating, and his only bona fide R-rated picture. This might well be because it was the first film Hitchcock made after the Production Code had been abandoned and ratings were instituted. If he could have filmed [[Film/{{Psycho}} Janet Leigh naked]] he probably would have. (The The only other two Hitchcock films to be rated R were ''Film/TornCurtain'' in 1968, allegedly for a scene where one of the heroes falsely shouts "FIRE!" in a theatre and causes a panic, something no less than SCOTUS saw as potentially illegal as both dangerous and false, and ''Psycho'' which was rated thusly in 1984, during a particularly reactionary period in the MPAA system's history when more modern slashers were causing a moral panic, resulting in an unusually high number of official X ratings at the time--a sizeable school of thought believes that it could qualify for a hard PG-13 if rated today.)
today.
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DeadMansChest: Two examples.
**The killer Rusk hides a Bab's body in a sack that he dumps in the back of a lorry full of sacks of potatoes. He then realises that his tie pin is still clutched in the dead woman's hand and has to retrieve it from the back of the moving lorry.
** In the climax, Oxford and Blaney are interrupted by Rusk dragging a large trunk into his flat, and the implications ofwhat's what he intends to put inside it are clear.
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* DisposingOfABody: After killing Babs in his flat, Rusk has to get rid of her body. He throws it away in a potato lorry. In the end, he kills another girl in his flat and brings a chest to hide the body.
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* DisposingOfABody: Early on, we see a body floating on the Thames, Rusk having evidently chucked that particular victim in the river. He does not bother with this after killing Brenda as he just leaves her body in her office. After killing Babs in his flat, Rusk though, he has to get rid of her body. He body — which he throws it away in into a potato lorry. In lorry due to head out of London. At the end, end of the film, he kills another girl in his flat and brings a chest to hide the body.body, which is when Inspector Oxford apprehends him.
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* EpicTrackingShot: The aerial [[TheOner Oner]] of the Thames slowly zooming onto the Tower Bridge during the opening credits. Hitchcock had wanted to open ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' with a similar shot of Phoenix before plans were scuttled, so he must've relished being able to do it for real here.
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* EpicTrackingShot: The aerial [[TheOner Oner]] of the Thames slowly zooming onto the Tower Bridge during the opening credits. Hitchcock had wanted to open ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' with a similar shot of Phoenix before plans were scuttled, so he must've relished being able to do it for real here.here, especially since he was from London.
