Mary (1931)
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Duration: 78 minuten
Country:
Germany / United Kingdom
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa and Paul Graetz
IMDb score:
5,7 (1.123)
Releasedate: 2 March 1931
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Mary plot
Mary Baring, a member of the local theater club, is arrested and tried for the murder of an actress. The jury finds her guilty and sentences her to death, but one of the jurors, Sir John Menier, has his doubts about the verdict. He becomes more and more convinced of her innocence and starts his own investigation to unmask the real culprit.
Actors and actresses
Sir John Menier
Mary Baring
Bobby Brown
Bebe Brown
Handel Fane
John Stuart
Bennet
Miß Miller
Verteidiger
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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German language retelling of Murder! with Alfred Abel as Sir John, the only member of a jury not convinced that Mary Baring [Olga Tschechowa] is a murderer. Under pressure from the other jurors – who have good arguments – he nevertheless agrees to a conviction. In the run-up to the execution, Sir John becomes convinced that she has been wrongly convicted. He investigates on his own and cunningly uses his experience in the stage world to unmask the true killer. Hitchcock's attempts to insert images from the English version are occasionally quite sloppy, but Abel is a worthy replacement for Herbert Marshall, making it barely inferior to the original.
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Bobbejaantje
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A few years ago I saw the original British version with Murder! and now it was the turn of the German remake by the master. The reason this was made has to do with the technological limitations of early sound film. At the time of silent films, worldwide distribution was not a problem provided the intertitles were adjusted. But with the rise of the sound film, for a while it was forced to make remakes in other languages in order to serve foreign markets. That practice would only disappear after the dubbing was perfected. Enter Mary. This has exactly the same storyline as its British brother, but is 20 m shorter. And that could be due to the deletion of all humor because it did not lend itself to the German version. A lack of humor hasn't bothered me after all. I definitely think the German version is a good film and I even find some (situational) humor here too. The opening shot completely bears the master's signature with an expressionistic approach that harks back to the experience he gained at UFA. The direction and editing of the jury scene are also well presented. Furthermore, a nice tight whodunit with good dialogues. The denouement is admittedly a bit mysterious and I am talking about the motive of the murder. I read several explanations about it afterwards. It especially says something about the spirit of the times in which this mainstream film was made when it concerns keeping 'mixed descent' a secret. Furthermore, there is the flirtation with gender change 30 years for Psycho. And gender swapping was certainly seen as subversive at that time.
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