Frenzy

Frenzy is a 1972 film about a man mistakenly suspected of being a serial killer who is murdering London women with a necktie.
 * Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Anthony Shaffer, based on the novel Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square by Arthur La Bern.

A deadly new twist from the original Hitchcock. taglines

Bob Rusk

 * I don't know if you know it, Babs, but you're my type of woman.
 * Don't forget, Bob's your uncle.
 * If you can fix up a lot of idiots, why not me?

Richard Blaney

 * Do I look like a sex murderer to you? Can you imagine me creeping around London, strangling all those women with ties? That's ridiculous... For a start, I only own two.

Chief Inspector Oxford

 * I expect she'll turn up sooner or later. These days, ladies abandon their honor far more readily than their clothes.
 * No, discretion is not traditionally the strong suit of the psychopath, dear. Believe me, that's what we're dealing with. You ought to read his wife's divorce petition.
 * Mr. Rusk. You're not wearing your tie.

Hotel porter

 * Just thinking about the lusts of men makes me want to heave. He spoke French, Spanish and German while in service.

Dialogue

 * Richard Blaney: [announcing himself to his wife's receptionist] You can inform Mrs. Blaney that one of her less successful exercises in matrimony has come to see her.
 * Monica Barling: And who shall I say is calling?
 * Richard Blaney: Mr. Blaney.


 * Solicitor in Pub: We were just talking about the tie murderer, Maisie. You'd better watch out.
 * Maisie, Barmaid: [salaciously] He rapes them first, doesn't he?
 * Solicitor in Pub: Yes, I believe he does.
 * Doctor in Pub: Well I suppose it's nice to know that every cloud has a silver lining.


 * Solicitor in Pub: Let's hope he slips up soon.
 * Doctor in Pub: In one way I rather hope he doesn't. We haven't had a good juicy series of sex murders since Christie. And they're so good for the tourist trade. Foreigners somehow expect the squares of London to be fog-wreathed, full of hansom cabs and littered with ripped whores, don't you think?


 * Inspector Oxford: Mr. Rusk. You're not wearing your tie.
 * Bob Rusk: [speechless] I... [Defeated, Rusk drops the trunk to the floor]

Taglines

 * A deadly new twist from the original Hitchcock.
 * Just an ordinary necktie used with a deadly new twist.
 * From the Master of Shock... A Shocking Masterpiece!

Cast

 * Jon Finch - Richard Blaney
 * Barry Foster - Robert Rusk
 * Barbara Leigh-Hunt - Brenda Blaney
 * Anna Massey - Babs Milligan
 * Alec McCowen - Chief Inspector Oxford
 * Vivien Merchant - Mrs. Oxford
 * Billie Whitelaw - Hetty Porter
 * Clive Swift - Johnny Porter
 * Bernard Cribbins - Felix Forsythe
 * Michael Bates - Sergeant Spearman
 * Jean Marsh - Monica Barling