Description

Young and Innocent (American title: The Girl Was Young) is a 1937 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney. Based on the 1936 novel A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey, the film is about a young man on the run from a murder charge who enlists the help of a woman who must put herself at risk for his cause. It is notable for an elaborately staged crane shot Hitchcock devised towards the end of the film, which identifies the real murderer.

Cast

• Nova Pilbeam as Erica Burgoyne
• Derrick De Marney as Robert Tisdall
• Percy Marmont as Colonel Burgoyne
• Edward Rigby as Old Will
• Mary Clare as Erica’s Aunt
• John Longden as Inspector Kent
• George Curzon (actor) as Guy
• Basil Radford as Erica’s Uncle
• Pamela Carme as Christine
• George Merritt (actor) as Detective Sergeant Miller
• J. H. Roberts as Solicitor
• Jerry Verno as Lorry Driver
• H. F. Maltby as Police Sergeant
• John Miller as Police Constable
• Syd Crossley as Policeman
• Anna Konstam as Bathing Girl
• Bill Shine as Manager of Tom’s Hat Cafe
• Beatrice Varley as Accused Man’s Wife
• Peter Thompson as Erica Burgoyne’s bespectacled brother