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 Laughs (1928 film) and Charles Puffy. The animal actor used for the role of Homo, the Wolf was a dog named Zimbo, who had previously appeared in the Fox Film's 1927 "Wolf Fangs". Following the success of Universal Pictures's 1923 adaptation of Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", the company was eager to release another film starring Lon Chaney. A treatment adapting "The Phantom of the Opera" was prepared, but rejected by the Universal executives. In its place, Chaney was offered the lead in a film version of Hugo's "The Man Who Laughs", to be produced under its French title ("L'Homme Qui