minor spoiler while read user comment for other hitchcock movie and i come across this phrase often and generally in association with topaz representthis be by far hitchcock bad since stage fright . or something to that effect . maybe i be just a hopeless blabbering hitchcock fan and but i find topaz and stage fright to be much good than the press they have get . stage fright have be accuse of be boring and although i suspect this be because there be no violence at all until the very end of the movie and and instead it deal quite a bit with dialogue and character development . at first and i think the acting be overdone and but 30 minute into the movie and i do not even notice . and of course and i can not say enough about alisair sim performance a eve ( jane wyman ) father . he be amaze in this movie . i also think stage fright contain quite a bit more of hitchcock dark sense of humor ( note the bar and shoot gallery scene and and marlene dietrich comment while try on her funeral gown ) . absolute hilarious . overall the movie be a keeper . it certainly isn not as good a psycho or the bird or any of his other 50 60 classic and and hitchcock doesn not do much of his fancy camerawork ( although the mingling through the bar be very nice ) and but this movie be surely no bad than juno and the paycock or torn curtain . and the usual hitchcockian plot twist be always a nice touch . stage fright be probably one of hitchcock most forgotten and most underappreciated movie . positive .