“Murder!” At the Intersection of Cinema and Modern Physics
In Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder! (1930), a black cat skitters away from a sudden scream in the night—an apt emblem for a film so riddled with uncertainty that even Schrödinger’s feline might think twice before stepping inside this Chinese box of nested realites.
Mythic Shadows: The Twin Goddesses of “Murder!” and “Mary”
On trial for murder, the luminous, even numinous, heroines of Hitchcock’s Murder! and Mary evoke the mythic resonance of their namesakes: Diana and Mary.
The Inner History of the Diana Baring Case In Hitchcock’s “Murder!”
In Murder! (1930), Hitchcock stages a mystery not only in the courtroom but within the mind of an actress, blurring the line between inner and outer, and the theatrical and the real, where even the suspect cannot recall her role.