Frenzy filmed in London for the 1956 remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much"). The last film he had made in Britain before his move to America was "Jamaica Inn" (1939). The film was screened at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition. Set in the early 1970s, the plot centres on a serial killer terrorizing London by raping and then strangling women with a tie. Bob Rusk (Barry Foster), a Covent Garden wholesale produce merchant, is the murderer. However, circumstantial evidence, partially engineered by Rusk, will implicate Rusk's friend Richard Blaney (Jon Finch),
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film) New York on 21 March 1935. Contemporary reviews were positive, with C.A. Lejeune of "The Observer" stating that she was "happy about this film [...] because of its very recklessness, its frank refusal to indulge in subtleties, to be the most promising work that Hitchcock has produced since "Blackmail"". "The Daily Telegraph" referred to it as a "striking come-back" for Hitchcock, while the "Daily Mail" stated that "Hitchcock leaps once again into the front rank of British directors". "The New York Times" praised the film as the "raciest melodrama of the new year", noting that it was "excitingly written" and