Frenzy actual London serial murder cases: the Christie murders in the early 1950s, and the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888. Barry Foster has said that, in order to prepare for his role, he was asked by Hitchcock to study two books about Neville Heath, an English serial killer who would often pass himself off as an officer in the RAF. "Frenzy" was the third and final film that Hitchcock made in Britain after he moved to Hollywood in 1939. The other two were "Under Capricorn" in 1949 and "Stage Fright" in 1950 (although there were some interior and exterior scenes
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (film) The "New York Times" called the book "beautifully executed." It became a best seller. Film rights were obtained before the novel had been published by $50,000. Eleanor Perry had read the novel in galleys and loved it. She took the novel to producer Martin Poll who bought it and they agreed to produce together with Perry writing the script. Perry had recently split from her husband Frank personally and professionally. In early 1972 she said the film would contain "very little of the murderous violence we've seen in westerns lately." Perry described the film as "the first woman's lib western."