Under Capricorn Movie Review 1949

Bergman is an Irish lass who follows her convict husband Cotten out to 1830s Australia where he makes a fortune. She turns to drink, perhaps because of his neglect, and has her position usurped by a housekeeper with designs on her husband. When Bergman's cousin (Wilding) arrives, Cotten may have cause for his violent jealousy. There's a plot twist involving old family skeletons, but this is definitely lesser Hitchcock. Adapted from the Helen Simpson novel. Remade in 1982.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 117 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Period Piece: 19th Century, On the Rocks, Down Under, Marriage, Ex-Cons

Cast

Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Jack Watling, Cecil Parker, Denis O'Dea

Cinematography

Jack Cardiff

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Producer

Transatlantic