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Under Capricorn (Original title)
Dates: 1949 (Copyright), 02 January 1950 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Story of a stableman who elopes with the daughter of an aristocrat and is deported to Australia.

Genre:
Period drama
Releases
Date: 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 117 mins Length: 10526 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (51)
Production Company/©: Transatlantic Pictures Corporation, [Producer]: Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Unit Manager: John Palmer, Production Manager: Fred Ahern, [Production Secretary]: Hazel Swift, Assistant Director: C. Foster Kemp, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Cliff Owen, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: John Pellatt, Continuity: Peggy Singer, [Assistant Continuity]: Jean Dyball, [Casting]: Margaret Bonnar, Screenplay by: James Bridie, Adaptation by: Hume Cronyn, From a novel by: Helen Simpson, [Based on the play] By: John Colton, Margaret Linden, Director of Photography: Jack Cardiff, Technicolor Colour Director: Natalie Kalmus, Associate Colour Director: Joan Bridge, Operator of Camera Movement: Paul Beeson, Operator of Camera Movement: Ian Craig, Operator of Camera Movement: David Macneilly, Jack Haste, [Technicolor Camera Assistant]: George Pink, [Operator Assistant]: Dennis Hatt, [Grips]: Percy Stilwell, Editor: A.S. Bates, [Assistant Editor]: Bert Rule, Production Designed by: Thomas Morahan, [Assistant Art Director]: Anthony Hayley, Kenneth McCallum Tait, Set Dresser: Philip Stockford, [Draughtsman]: Geoffrey Somerton, Ted Clements, Costumes Designed by: Roger Furse, [Costume Supervisor]: Julia Squire, [Wardrobe Master]: Arthur Newman, [Wardrobe Mistress]: Mary Leslie, [Assistant Wardrobe Master]: Bert Weston, Make up Artist: Charles Parker, [Make up Assistant]: Dave Aylott, [Floor Make-up]: Neville Smallwood, [Hairdressing Supervisor]: Joan Johnstone, [Hairdressing Assistant]: Joan Smallwood, Hilda Fox, Musical Score by: Richard Addinsell, Musical Director: Louis Levy, [Sound Supervisor]: A.W. Watkins, Sound Recordist: Peter Handford
Cast (23)
Ingrid Bergman (Lady Henrietta Flusky), Joseph Cotten (Sam Flusky), Michael Wilding (Hon. Charles Adare), Margaret Leighton (Milly), Cecil Parker (the governor), Denis O'Dea (Mr Corrigan), Jack Watling (Winter), Harcourt Williams (the coachman), John Ruddock (Mr Potter), Bill Shine (Mr Banks), Victor Lucas (The Rev. Smiley), Ronald Adam (Mr Riggs), Francis de Wolff (Major Wilkins), G.H. Mulcaster (Dr. Macallister), Olive Sloane (Sal), Maureen Delaney (Flo), Julia Lang (Susan), Betty Mcdermott (Martha), Richard Turner ([clerk]), Ivor Barrie ([first liveried servant]), Ronnie Hill ([second liveried servant]), Alfred Hitchcock ([man in crowd listening to speech]), Martin Benson ([])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (13)
In: CineAction! n52 June 2000  Pages: 18-27
Title: Under Capricorn: Hitchcock in transitionAuthor: JACOBOWITZ, Florence Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Part of a whole issue on filmmakers in exile, this article suggests that UNDER CAPRICORN looks beyond the gothic.

In: AMPS n29 Spring 1999  Page: 15
Title: [AMPS - n29 Spring 1999: no known title]Article type: LetterLanguage: English
Description: Letter from John Aldred confirming that he was the 'amateur' boom operator working with Peter Handford on UNDER CAPRICORN

In: AMPS n27 Autumn 1998  Pages: 8-9
Title: Looking back with Peter HandfordAuthor: HANDFORD, Peter Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Article by Peter Handford about his work as production mixer in 1949 on Alfred Hitchcock's UNDER CAPRICORN. The 'amateur' boom operator he refers to was John Aldred - as confirmed by Aldred himself in Issue no.29.

In: Positif n336 February 1989  Pages: 70-71
Title: Le cinéma retrouvéAuthor: AMIEL, Vincent Article type: ArticleLanguage: French
Description: Reassessment of the film

In: The Listener v118 n3019 9 Jul 1987  Page: 35
Title: [The Listener - v118 n3019 9 Jul 1987: no known title]Language: English

In: Quarterly Review of Film Studies v6 n4 Autumn 1981  Pages: Fall 365-383
Title: [Quarterly Review of Film Studies - v6 n4 Autumn 1981: no known title]Language: English
Description: Analysis.

In: Cahiers du Cinéma v1 n1 April 1951  Page: 29
Title: [Cahiers du Cinéma - v1 n1 April 1951: no known title]Language: French
Description: Comparison with 'Stromboli'.

In: Motion Picture Herald v176 n10 10 Sep 1949  Page: 9
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v176 n10 10 Sep 1949: no known title]Language: English

In: Monthly Film Bulletin v16 n190 October 1949  Page: 178
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v16 n190 October 1949: no known title]Language: English

In: Today's Cinema v73 n5864 5 Oct 1949  Page: 9
Title: [Today's Cinema - v73 n5864 5 Oct 1949: no known title]Language: English

In: Sight and Sound Supplement n18 May 1949  Page: 41, 42
Title: [Sight and Sound Supplement - n18 May 1949: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English

In: Today's Cinema v67 n5393 10 Sep 1946  Page: 3
Title: [Today's Cinema - v67 n5393 10 Sep 1946: no known title]Language: English
Description: Hitchcock to make South of Capricorn.

In:   Page: 33
Title: [ - : no known title]
Description: Issue devoted to the work of Hitchcock.


Books held in BFI Reuben Library (6)
Title: Alfred Hitchcock
Author: BADMINGTON, Neil  Pages: 4 volumes

Title: Style and meaning: studies in the detailed analysis of film
Author: GIBBS, John  Pages: xiii, 250 p.

Title: Hitchcock: past and future
Author: ALLEN, Richard  Pages: xix, 284 p.

Title: Hitchcock's notebooks: an authorized and illustrated look inside the creative mind of Alfred Hitchcock
Author: AUILER, Dan  Pages: 567p.

Title: Hitchcock's secret notebooks: an authorised and illustrated look inside the creative mind of Alfred Hitchcock
Author: AUILER, Dan  Pages: 567 pages

Title: Unmasking Alfred Hitchcock: a study of selected films in their context from Murder! (1930) to Marnie (1964)
Author: BRUPBACHER, Beat  Pages: 301p.
Description: pp.250-272 removed . Noted June 2005. Cannot trace author on web for replacement pages. Unpublished thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Trinity Term 1992. MURDER! pp.14-33 RICH AND STRANGE pp.34-55 SECRET AGENT pp.68-90 SABOTAGE pp.91-113 REBECCA pp.127-50. UNDER CAPRICORN pp.151-76 I CONFESS pp.185-206 The WRONG MAN pp.207-38 VERTIGO pp.242-71 MARNIE pp.272-91


Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(56)
Accessible materials to view(4)
Description: 35mm Colour PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 10544 FeetStock date: 1991BFI identifier: C-736278
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Description: 35mm Colour PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 10544 FeetStock date: 1991BFI identifier: C-736278
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Description: 35mm Colour PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 10519 FeetStock date: 1992BFI identifier: C-744184
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