After a series of not so great to pretty bad films for Universal Studios, Hitchcock managed to put together a fairly decent film. For a man in his 70's and not in particularly great health this was a considerable achievement.
With a fairly decent British writer in Anthony Schaffer and a very good British cast, Hitchcock returned to London to film it away from the interference of Universal Studios.
The film is one of Hitchcock's "run for cover" stories he had done successfully before Frenzy follows a serial murder running around London strangling women. Hitchcock pulled it together for a couple of okay to good Hitchcockian scenes and the London locations did seem to invigorate his storytelling.
Frenzy is not up to some of Hitchcock's greatest films but it is a fairly good film to wrap up his career with, Family Plot excluded in this case. Running time 116 minutes.
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