Rich and Strange 1931

Rich and Strange

1931 · United Kingdom · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 83 min

FunnyStrange Approachable · Moderate Comedy drama

A bored married couple inherit money, leave suburban routine for a world cruise, and discover that escape magnifies rather than solves their dissatisfaction.

What to expect

Hitchcock treats travel as emotional disorientation, moving between comedy, romance, danger, and abrupt visual experiment. The unstable tone suits characters who confuse novelty with transformation.

How to ease in

Fred and Emily are testing fantasies of another life, not following one adventure genre. Expect the film to change mood whenever their idea of freedom changes.

Heads-up

A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes infidelity, sexual manipulation, shipwreck, death imagery, seasickness comedy, racial stereotypes, and marital hostility.
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A bored married couple inherit money, leave suburban routine for a world cruise, and discover that escape magnifies rather than solves their dissatisfaction.

The journey keeps offering new scenery before Fred and Emily have learned how to see one another. I like the uncomfortable suggestion that distance can enlarge the habits you meant to leave behind.

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The journey keeps offering new scenery before Fred and Emily have learned how to see one another. I like the uncomfortable suggestion that distance can enlarge the habits you meant to leave behind.

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Wikidata 83-minute listing83 min83 minutes reproduces the single duration stated by the source. The listing does not identify a cut, score, territory, frame rate, source element, or restoration.Runtime reference · Checked 2026-08-22

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