The play's the thing

Murder!

(1930)

You don't have to have seen a couple dozen Hitchcock films to know that the woman found in a daze with a bloody fireplace poker and a dead woman at her feet is innocent. Much of this is murky, but much is wonderful--a bit, for example, where police interviews with actors are repeatedly interrupted by their cues. And as seems to be the case with many of these early films, there are delightful foreshadowings of later films--most notably, here, to the guilt hallucination in Strangers on a Train.