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The Woman Alone (Gaumont British, 1937). Lobby Card (11 The Woman Alone (Gaumont British, 1937).

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The Woman Alone (Gaumont British, 1937). Lobby Card (11 The Woman Alone (Gaumont British, 1937).
<B>The Woman Alone (Gaumont British, 1937).</B></I> Lobby Card (11" X 14"). In speaking to François Truffaut about this film, Hitchcock expressed considerable regret over a pivotal sequence in which a young boy unwittingly carries a bomb onto a public bus. While he seems to create tension through rapid cross-cutting of the boy in jeopardy, he claims that he actually broke all of his own rules on suspense. The powerful sequence outraged audiences, and one critic in particular, the "Observer"'s C.A. Lejeune, complained of the cruelty of the plot twist. This outcry may have motivated Hitchcock's renunciation, but the shock seems consistent with his later films. For example, in "Psycho," he manipulated the audience expectation for the escalation and relief of tension by refusing the relief and replacing it with horror -- killing the film's biggest star in the shower. Similarly, everyone in the theater to see "A Woman Alone" no doubt expected the child to escape jeopardy in the nick of time, but the sequence also ended in horror instead. Aside from cracks on the right side, this card is in great condition, with clean borders and sharp edges. Very Fine+.