Episode #369

Mary

(1931)

Das ist kein Theaterstück, das ist das Leben.

The 1930s were a wild era in film. The industry was exploding; there was a ton of money to be made, especially in foreign markets…if you could figure out a way to get your movie into the local language…like German! Because sound couldn’t be added after the fact yet, this meant literally making your movie over again with a different (German) script, different (German) actors, on the same sets. Hence, Mary, the German version of Murder!, a movie Hitchcock made twice. We’ve watched Murder! Now…the German version. Wonder how it compares…