Plot summary

Kennedy 2022-01-07 15:52:55

Veteran pilot Blaney works in a bar and fell in love with his female colleague Barbara. One morning, he was fired by his boss for stealing alcohol and drinking. He went to the dating agency of his ex-wife Brenda for a while and was seen by his assistant Bahrain. Da invited him to lunch, and stuffed twenty yuan into his pocket. Blaney didn't know. He slept in the hospice that night. The next day, Mr. Robinson, Brenda’s friend and Brenda’s client, came to the dating agency, raped and strangled Brenda with a tie. He was the tie killer wanted by the police at the time. According to the testimony of the assistant Ms. Bahrain, the police suspected that Blaney was the murderer. Blaney and Barbara learned that they had become suspects the next day after they opened the room and went to hide in the old comrades-in-arms’ house. Barbara went back to the bar to get something and met Robinson. Barbara, who had nowhere to go, came to Robinson's house and was murdered. In the evening, Luo put the body in the bag and threw it on the truck carrying the potatoes. When he returned home, he found that his badge was missing. He went to the car again to look for it (high tide) and got off at the restaurant halfway. The detective's wife is a bad cook, but she can feel that Blaney is not the real murderer. The next day Blaney learned that Barbara had also been murdered. Under the pressure of his wife, his comrades had to drive her out of the house and refused to testify. With nowhere to go, Blaney found his old friend Robinson, Luo took him home and settled in, and secretly put the victim's belongings in Blaney's bag and called the police. Blaney was arrested and imprisoned. He knew that Luo was the real murderer and blamed himself. The detective also discovered the suspicious points and collected evidence and went to Robinson's house. At this time, Blaney fled to the doctor and escaped from the hospital and came to Robinson's house to prepare for revenge. Entering the door and found another woman strangled to death on the bed, Robinson just brought a big box upstairs, and the stolen goods were obtained.

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Extended Reading
  • Grayson 2022-01-07 15:52:55

    The interesting passage is actually the long section of climbing up the potato truck and breaking the fingers of the corpse, photographing Melville's absurd meaning of highlighting fate with detailed processes. Others are a bit of a runaway account. At the end, the logic of the plot is also crossed: the true murderer still uses a tie to kill after the protagonist is wronged and imprisoned. Isn't the protagonist's crime self-cleaning, there is no need to escape from the prison hospital at all.

  • Novella 2022-04-23 07:03:20

    The ending is great, Hitchcock really deserves to be a world-renowned director, only those who are not comfortable with the status quo and strive for the future deserve to be saved

Frenzy quotes

  • Gladys: Thank God we're off to Paris tomorrow. That's all I can say. That is, if we're not all in jail! I'm going shopping.

  • Hetty Porter: Splendid. Froggies will roll over and die at the sight of a *real* English barmaid.