Stage Fright (1950)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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What critics compared Stage Fright to
If you're keeping score, so far it's Psycho , Stage Fright , and a small, not-insignificant detour into Un chien andalou, maybe.
The theatrical production of The Mousetrap looms large here, but director George is no Hitchcock and this generally lacklustre film about murder in London’s theatreland is no Stage Fright (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950).
That is to say, while the film throws in a few questionable late-game plot twists, it’s fairly apparent that it’s not pulling a Stage Fright -style (1950) con on the audience.
Hitchcock famously experimented with duplicitous narration in Stage Fright (1940), and Fincher follows that lead in ways that are simultaneously confounding and revealing; just because we hear a character telling us something and we see it enacted before our eyes doesn’t necessarily make it the truth.