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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381544329
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 24838
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: October 08, 1949
Editorial Review:
Description:
Screen legends Ingrid Bergman (Notorious) and Joseph Cotten (Citizen Kane) star in this spellbinding melodrama from the screen's Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock! Banished for murder to Australia, Sam Flusky (Cotton) takes his victim's troubled sister, Henrietta (Bergman), as his wife. The arrival of a new governor also brings Henrietta's old friend, Adare (Michael Wilding), who tries to help her conquer the demons plaguing her life. But something mysterious is afoot; is Henrietta going insane, or is there a sinister plot at work? A gripping, atmospheric yarn in the style of Rebecca and Gaslight, this sumptuous production features some of Hitchcock's most audacious visual tricks and is now presented on DVD in a rich new Technicolor digital transfer!
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With the long-take experiment of Rope still fresh in his mind, Alfred Hitchcock turned his attention to romantic melodrama: Under Capricorn, a novel of 1830s Australia. Having little of the usual suspense to rely on, Hitchcock used the elegant long-take method to draw out Ingrid Bergman's harrowing performance. As a fallen aristocrat who married a former stable boy (Joseph Cotten) and moved Down Under, Bergman gives a fine portrayal of a woman hemmed in by a sour marriage and a guilty secret. The actress also felt hemmed in by Hitch's elaborate camera movements; she hated them. This expensive picture flopped on its first release, but it has a hypnotic flow despite a tendency toward talkiness. Hitchcock fans will recognize, beyond the details of plot, a couple of the director's key motifs: the jaundiced view of marriage, and the anxieties underlying social status. And, of course, the worship of an actress. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Mellow. Drama. Hitchcock?
Although I have collected nearly all of Alfred Hitchcock's films on DVD, I put off watching this one for a long time. I suppose it was because of the mixed reviews I'd seen over the years, and the fact that the plot itself did not seem to resemble what I expect a "Hitchcock film" to be. It was, ultimately, my love for Ingrid Bergman, not the director himself, that bid me to give this one a chance.
And I'm glad I went into it with that mindset, because it's a little hard to think of ... Read More
Rating:  - Ponderous period drama from The Master
"Under Capricorn" was the second and last film (after "Rope") that Hitchcock completed under the ill-fated Transatlantic banner the vehicle has set up after release from his Selznick contract. Like "Rope", Hitchcock experimented with long takes and complicated camera movements.
Unlike "Rope", however, "Under Capricorn" is a talky bore. Hitchcock had little feel for this type of material - a period drama set in colonial Australia. The film is not helped by being entirely shot in a studio ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the unknown and nevertheless one of the best films of Hitchcock
By some thoughtless prejudices "Under Capricorn" is rejected among the people who love violence and action as an "untypical" or "tedious" film of Hitchcock which lacks for suspense and goose-flesh (Hitchcock himself most cynically and deliberately contributed to similar prejudices by his commentaries towards the public and Truffaut). In fact this film is as deep and beautiful as "Vertigo" and as terrifying and psychologically subtil as "Psycho" (these latter films seem to be some kind of a scale in valuation ... Read More
Rating: - You could hear a pin drop
The divergence of opinion among the reviewers regarding this film interests me - and reflects the changes the media itself has undergone, inspiring me to add my bit to the dialog here for what its worth. First, I confess to not having seen the DVD. I saw Under Capricorn about 20 years ago at the Nuart, a revival theatre in Los Angeles, where it played as the late night feature on a double-bill with Strangers on a Train to a packed house. The showing was memorable. By the middle of the film, the tension had ... Read More
Rating: - Bergman and Hitch's Last Film
While Hitchcock was under contract to David O Selznick, he was loaned out more than used by Selznick. This was another loan out situation.
Prior to the American Revolution, the colonies were used to transport criminals from Great Britain. Afterwards, they were transported to Australia. This film takes place during the Australian transportation period. England has sent a new governor to Australia. With the governor is his shady cousin, Charles Adare (Michael Wilding). Adare is looking to make ... Read More
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