Stage Fright

Despite the ideal Hitchcock title, this is not the ideal Hitchcock film. It's by no means a bad film, in fact it's a good one, just one of Hitchcock's more justifiably forgotten films. It's generally entertaining and enjoyable, but never reaches the point of being suspenseful, and certainly never scarey. Hitchcock later lamented his use of the false flashback in this film, which drives the narrative. Alastair Sim steals his scenes as the amateur detective father, and has some amusing scenes and one-liners. Actually, this has some of Hitchcock's finest comic moments despite not being known as one of his more comic films.