Hitch is still learning his craft here, and one would be hard pressed to be convinced he had a hand in this production were it not for the opening credits acknowledging his involvement. In his defense, "sound" was a new filmic "trick", and in several scenes the distance from the actors to the hidden microphone is quite noticable as their voices are echoey and distant, that is, until they move closer to the mic. The acting is a tad stagey, even for this era, but the story is fairly solid, even though a straight dramatic film is uncharacteristic of Hitchcock's style, which soon hereafter he would begin to hone. There are several moments of the Hitchcock we would all come to know and love, but for the most part, the camera work is staid and typical for this era. Regardless of all this, I enjoyed it more than I had anticipated, perhaps to its noteriety as one of Hitch's least-successful experiments, and I suppose I would spin this DVD on a rainy day at some point in the future.