Young and Innocent

Young and Innocent (U.S. title: The Girl Was Young) is a 1937 British crime thriller film about a man on the run from a murder charge who enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.
 * Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Gerald Savory and Alma Reville, loosely based on Josephine Tey's novel A Shilling for Candles (1936).

A romantic murder-mystery drama!

Erica Burgoyne

 * Haven't you seen anyone with a twitch yet?


 * Father, don't you think we ought to ask Mr. Tisdall to dinner?

Dialogue

 * Erica Burgoyne: We ought to order tea or something if we're going to stay here long.
 * Old Will: Well, I'd sooner have beers.
 * Erica Burgoyne: I don't think we can get them at the moment.
 * Old Will: I better order it, since I'm the man, eh?


 * Old Will: Two cups of tea, please.
 * Waiter: Indian or Chinese?
 * Old Will: No, tea.


 * Old Will: What about dancin' around, eh?
 * Erica Burgoyne: Can you dance?
 * Old Will: No, of course not, duckie. But, I don't mind havin' a go. It's only half-walkin' anyway.


 * Robert Tisdall: I feel like Bonnie Prince Charlie. You must be Flora MacDonald.
 * Erica Burgoyne: A good while ago I was Florence Nightingale.


 * Erica Burgoyne: Oh Robert, if only things would turn out all right.
 * Robert Tisdall: They started to.
 * Erica Burgoyne: Why, how do you mean?
 * Robert Tisdall: You called me Robert.
 * Erica Burgoyne: Oh, did I? I-I didn't notice it.

Cast

 * Nova Pilbeam - Erica Burgoyne
 * Derrick De Marney - Robert Tisdall
 * Percy Marmont - Colonel Burgoyne
 * Edward Rigby - Old Will
 * Mary Clare - Erica's aunt Margaret
 * John Longden - Inspector Kent
 * George Curzon - Guy
 * Basil Radford - Erica's uncle Basil
 * Pamela Carme - Christine Clay
 * George Merritt - Detective Sergeant Miller