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Young and Innocent

Young and Innocent

  • Status: Released
  • 01-11-1937
  • Runtime: 83 min
  • Score: 6.6
  • Vote count: 239

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

Nova Pilbeam

Erica Burgoyne

Derrick De Marney

Robert Tisdall

Percy Marmont

Col. Burgoyne

Edward Rigby

Old Will

Mary Clare

Erica's Aunt Margaret

John Longden

Det. Insp. Kent

George Curzon

Guy

Basil Radford

Erica's Uncle Basil

Pamela Carme

Christine Clay

George Merritt

Det. Sgt. Miller

J.H. Roberts

Solicitor Henry Briggs

Jerry Verno

Lorry Driver

H.F. Maltby

Police Sergeant

John Miller

Police Constable

Pat Fitzpatrick

Harold a Little Boy at Birthday Party (uncredited)

Alfred Hitchcock

Photographer Outside Courthouse (uncredited)

Anna Konstam

Elsie a Bather at Beach (uncredited)

Bill Shine

Manager of Tom's Hat Cafe (uncredited)

Peggy Simpson

Alice a Bather at Beach (uncredited)

Torin Thatcher

Nobby's Lodging House Caretaker (uncredited)

George Spence

Tramp in Cafe (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

Now here's a question - whatever did happen to Nova Pilbeam? She is really good in this gentle little romantic thriller from Alfred Hitchcock. A film star is murdered by her estranged husband after he gets fed up with all her affairs. Her body is found on the beach by one of her beaux "Robert Tisdall" (Derrick de Marney). He goes to fetch the police but is seen running from the crime and soon it is he that the police are searching for. It's at this point that it all gets a little too slapstick; he is caught; then lots of mix-ups and police incompetence before he eventually embarks on a mission to prove his innocence with the help of the aforementioned 18-year-old Pilbeam. It's not one of Hitchcock's better films but is suspenseful and tense enough at times - if somewhat let down by the ending - enough to pass 80 minutes, at any rate.