This is the last great film Hitchcock ever made, though it is surprisingly nasty in places. Filmed in London in the early '70s, Hitchcock returned to his familiar theme of an innocent man on the run for this grimly funny psycho thriller.

Some images and sequences are amongst the most memorable to be found in any of Hitchcock's films. A minor classic.

Any lazy reviewer who points out the Psycho shower scene as proof that Hitch was the 'master of suggestion' really should watch this. It contains perhaps the most shocking rape and murder scene ever filmed in the sense that it is so casual. You have a clutch of characters introduced at the outset of the movie, which is clearly going to be about a serial killer and when revealed a third of the way in who it is, it's (up to now) by far the nicest guy you can imagine. Brilliant but harrowing. Up there with Hitchcock's finest work.