"In Young and Innocent, based on a Josephine Tey mystery, a movie star is found murdered and suspicion falls upon a struggling writer who escapes from court and fights to establish his innocence. It is one of Hitchcock's most underrated works, a complex study in the relationship between cinema and reality (expressed in the ambiguous imagery, and specific visual coups such as the dazzling ballroom crane shot (which Claude Chabrol has called "the most beautiful forward tracking shot to be found in the history of film")); and yet another story of injustice whereby chaos intrudes upon ordinary lives and families" (National Film Theatre, London). "Young and Innocent sustains a mixture of light comedy and thrills in deft proportion, and to constantly surprising ends....The settings range across the Cornish countryside, and provide the opportunity for both exciting location photography and some devastating satire of well-to-do British gentry in their seaside and country-manor retreats..." (Albert Johnson, SFIFF '71)