Mjeteconer Just perfect...

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Rainey Dawn This film is known as "The Rich and Strange" (UK) and "East of Shanghai" (US). It's one of Hitchcock's romantic comedies that is often wrongly tagged as a thriller film and I would imagine this is because Hitchcock is famous for making thriller films. This film is NOT a thriller.This film is more like other earlier Hitchcock works: Young and Innocent (1937) or The Farmer's Wife (1928) due to the romantic comedy nature of the films. Do not expect this film to be anything like Vertigo (1958) or even Psycho (1960) because it is not."The Rich and Strange" is not a bad film it's pretty good but not what most of would think of when we think of Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock's real calling was for suspenseful thrillers and not romantic comedies but he really doesn't disappoint with films like this one.This film is a moral piece: A man and woman is poor, they inherit lots of money and go sailing around the world. While on a ship their relationship falls apart as they realize they were happier when they were poor instead of being filthy rich - and in the end they lose everything becoming poor and happy again. The end.6.5/10

LeonLouisRicci Predictably well Crafted and Visually Interesting Early Hitchcock. This is a Comedy/Drama with none of the Thriller or Suspense Traits that one would expect. But Hitch was never one to shy away from Humour and was quite good at it, and like here, it was usually Dark with a Bite of Sarcasm and Satire.A Movie that is Broad in Scope and tells the Soap Opera Tale of Infidelity and Marital Angst aboard an Ocean Cruise. There are quite a few touches from a Director who Loved the Camera and Played with it as much as the Audience. It is a good looking Film with some very Quirky Characters bouncing off the Couple as they find out things about Themselves as well as the World around Them.The Second Half brings things Home with more Drama and less Lover's Angst and the Situations are Bizarre and Intriguing. It is well worth a Watch for anyone interested in Early Cinema, Hitchcock Sidestepping (but not really) His usual Fascination with Death and its Surroundings, or for just Movie Fans in General. Keep an eye out for Cats that insist on exploring the Dinner Table. Overall, the Movie will not disappoint.

TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews This was one of the three Hitchcock films in a box set. I hadn't heard of any of them, and only got them because of his name and them being on sale. This is similar to one of the other two(the one I've watched), The Lady Vanishes(the last is Secret Agent) in some ways; they both start out looking like they're going to be silent(especially this one), and neither have scene selection(well, this one, at the very least, allows you to skip to the very end so that you don't have to fast-forward through the entire thing to play it from near the end). This is an odd little 83 minutes of a movie. It was made back when both genders wore a ton of make-up, so the male lead looks like Dracula. Worse is the fact that the period shows in the plentiful sexism and the rampant racism. The thing frankly isn't all that funny, and many jokes are repeated. Our main character is obnoxious. The plot isn't that engaging; I was never that into this. Pacing is uneven. It does take the audience to exotic places around the world, if it prefers to show little of them(and is it just me, or is the tone negative towards them? Was the xenophobia *that* bad?). As a plus, there is a good speech about love. The quality of sound and image is reasonable. I recommend this purely to completists. 6/10

Steffi_P One of the problems with Hitchcock's reputation as "master of suspense" is that any films whose faces don't fit tend to get overlooked. Rich and Strange is just such a picture, although it was apparently a project close to Hitch's heart, and incidentally is very good indeed.One of the best aspects of Hitchcock's early British work is that it has a grace and beauty to it that was missing in the emotionally cold (albeit technically brilliant) features of his Hollywood career. Rich and Strange is arguably the most graceful and beautiful of them all. We open with a tight rhythmic sequence that reminds me of the early musicals of Rene Clair, or Rouben Mamoulian in Love Me Tonight, with the characters' activities – in this case the lead man navigating the rush hour – choreographed to a musical score. Later we are treated to a comical montage of a whistle-stop tour of Paris, and on the cruise a series of flowing, dreamlike images.Like all of Hitchcock's earliest pictures, Rich and Strange features a lot of visual attention-grabbing, such as obtrusive camera moves or similar images dissolving into each other. Sometimes – particularly in his silent films – this could be a bit unnecessary and distracting, but in Rich and Strange it works for two reasons. First, it is always woven into that musical flow of images. Secondly he never allows it to interfere with the dramatic moments. In the second half of the picture, when the drama becomes more intense, his visual style settles down and the scenes are shot in a fairly straight ahead manner. This balanced structure, switching smoothly from heavy stylisation to stark simplicity as and when the story demands it, makes Rich and Strange all the more affecting and compelling.The plot has similarities to the forbidden-love dramas that Cecil B. DeMille made in the late teens and early 20s. Like DeMille, Hitchcock uses positioning of characters to show the affairs developing – increasingly pairing the lovers together in one shot, amidst pretty framing devices. What is particularly neat is how, as Henry Kendall and Joan Barry's marriage starts to fall apart, Hitch several times frames them side by side appearing as mirror images of each other. These shots look quite funny, but also seem to summarise the state of mind of an increasingly bored couple. The dialogue is more or less superfluous – which is just as well with the appalling sound quality.Contrary to what some have said, Rich and Strange is not "one for Hitchcock completists only". Of course it will come as a disappointment for anyone expecting a thriller, but taken as the romantic drama that it is, this as tightly structured and expertly envisaged as the greatest of his suspense pictures. Rich and Strange is easily the best film from the first ten years of Hitch's career, and I would even go as far as to place it among the top four or five Hitchcocks of all time.