Young And Innocent

I just finished the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "Young and Innocent."

This film didn't appeal to me entirely. It was definitely a film about an innocent man accused of something terrible, strangling a woman with a belt on the seashore.

The big evidence against him was that he was running from the scene and the fact that he owned a raincoat, which would've had a belt if he knew where it was.

Personally I think this would be a job for forensics to sort out. Because couldn't there be some other evidence to be collected at the scene? It seemed ridiculous to me that the automatically assumed this guy was guilty and case closed. Hmm.

Anyway, that was the movie. The constable's daughter is gradually won over by the guy, eventually believing him to be innocent. He escapes the police and tries his best to prove he didn't do it. It goes on from there, with a hobo kind of guy who knows about the raincoat, etc. I couldn't follow the whole rationale about the raincoat. There were things about it that didn't make sense to me.

We end up with a happy ending, thanks to a guy with a twitchy face inexplicably confessing on the dance floor. So that was that.

It wasn't my favorite Hitchcock movie by a hundred miles. There were lots of good things about it, though. The guy with the twitchy face was fun to watch. Also the other children at the dinner table and the kids at the birthday party were fun to watch.