The Times (18/Jan/1938) - New British films

(c) The Times (18/Jan/1938)

NEW BRITISH FILMS

Mr. Alfred Hitchcock's new film, Young and Innocent, will be seen at the Gaumont Cinema at the end of this month.

It is based on Miss Josephine Tey's novel "A Shilling for Candles," and tells the story of the pursuit and escape of a young man who finds himself caught in a web of circumstantial evidence and suspected of a murder he did not commit.

Mr. Hitchcock has a particular talent for preserving an atmosphere of suspense, of linking incident on to incident without loosening the tautness of the thread, and the plot of Miss Tey's novel should suit him. It is not all suspense, however; there are comedy and romance as well. Mr. Derrick de Marney has the part of the unfortunate young man, and Miss Nova Pilbeam that of the Chief Constable's daughter who helps him in his search for the proof of his innocence.

Mr. Gordon Harker's next part on the screen will be in a comedy "thriller" called No Parking, which Mr. Jack Raymond will direct for Herbert Wilcox Productions. Another British film on the way is an adaptation of "John Halifax, Gentleman," in which Mr. John Warwick, a young Australian actor, has the name part.