希区柯克曾两次执导《擒凶记》故事,本片是在三十年代于英国拍摄的黑白片版本。描述一个英国家庭到瑞士度假,从一名垂死的间谍口中知悉一位驻伦敦的外交官将在他出席音乐会时被人暗杀。为了让这对夫妇守口如瓶,暗杀者绑架了他们的女儿作为人质,然而他俩还是去了音乐所。全片混合了间谍片、警匪片、喜剧片等多元化的素材,拍成一部内容丰富剧力强烈的作品,并且微妙地反映了当年一触即发的欧洲政治局势。
The time for this sleepy village to awake and face its demons has firmly landed on its doorstep. The transformation of idyllic rural Englishness has to be tested to its limits, on their own and with time running out, even the softest of hearts have to learn the hardest rule; in order to survive, this little village of Bramley End must, with shocking and disturbing new qualities...
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.