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(aka "East of Shanghai")
Rich and Strange, also known as East of Shanghai, is the splendid seafaring comedy from legendary director Alfred Hitchcock’s early years in the British film industry. Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife Emily (Joan Barry) lead a boring existence in the London suburbs. When the Hills come into an inheritance from a wealthy uncle, Fred quits his mundane job and they embark on a world cruise to get a taste of the high life. But all does not go as planned as the couple’s voyage becomes fraught with treacherous romantic duplicities. Money does not buy happiness when Hitchcock steers the ship! A visually dazzling and slyly hilarious portrait of a marriage in crisis, Rich and Strange is a one-of-a-kind classic from the Master of Suspense! *** Hitchcock's career is full of unexpected patterns and internal correspondences, but none are more bizarre than the comparison between this modestly ambitious drama of 1932 and his Cold War spy movie Torn Curtain of 1966. Both are about couples abroad (in this case, middle class suburbanites who come into money and take a disastrous world cruise), and both are extraordinarily scathing about the timidity and emotional reserve of their central characters: innocence, of the most banal and compromised kind confronts experience in the form of exotic strangers and risks, and responds by retreating further into its shell. It wasn't well received at the time, but Hitchcock himself retained enthusiasm for it. Excerpt from TimeOut located HERE |
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Theatrical Release: December 10th, 1931
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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
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Distribution | Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray | |
Runtime | 1:23:29.462 | |
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DTS-HD Master
Audio English 1993 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1993 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 /
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Kino
1. 33:1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 29,463,533,890 bytesFeature: 27,318,724,608 bytes Video Bitrate: 39.27 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
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On their
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Kino use a DTS-HD Master dual-mono track (24-bit) in the
original English language. Rich and Strange
is an early-talkie
and has typically less-crisp audio and dialogue. But it was audible
infused with occasional title-cards. The drama-filled score by Adolph Hallis
- as 'Hal Dolphe' (his only film composure
credit with the following year's
Number Seventeen directed by Hitchcock,) sounding clean with consistent dialogue
in the lossless transfer. Kino offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'A'
Blu-ray.
NOTE:
HERE is a YouTube video of a fan identifying a problem (repeated
sound for a scene...) with the audio on the
Blu-ray.
The Kino
Blu-ray
Alfred Hitchcock's Rich and Strange
is interesting - essentially a comedy with some themes of martial
conflict + dissatisfaction, privilege, deception and value-centering. I
enjoyed it much more than I anticipated. It's fun with amusing
characters and high-level adventure seeping into the story. Vintage film
fans, and Hitch-completists, will appreciate the Kino Blu-ray
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