And despite the grim subject matter, Frenzy is one of the funnier films Hitchcock ever made.
Richard (Jon Finch) is a down-on-his luck drifter who finds himself the prime suspect in his ex-wife's murder due to a classic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's the kind of plot that, by this time, viewers had seen a dozen times from Hitchcock, but he manages to keep it fresh thanks to a dynamite lead performance from Finch and a masterful control of the camera at all times. And despite the grim subject matter, Frenzy is one of the funnier films Hitchcock ever made.