Hitchcock’s Cameo
Hitchcock’s famous cameo is in the very first scene of the film (about 3 minutes into the story), showing him wearing a bowler hat in the middle of a crowd in front of London’s River Thames, listening cynically to the politician’s phony speech.
Teaser trailer show a Hitchcock-like dummy floating in the River Thames, and Hitchcock introducing the audience to Covent Garden via the fourth wall.
Cast
Jon Finch as Richard Ian “Dick” Blaney
Alec McCowen as Chief Inspector Oxford
Barry Foster as Robert “Bob” Rusk
Billie Whitelaw as Hetty Porter
Anna Massey as Barbara Jane “Babs” Milligan
Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Brenda Margaret Blaney
Bernard Cribbins as Felix Forsythe
Clive Swift as Johnny Porter
Madge Ryan as Mrs. Davison
Elsie Randolph as Gladys
Gerald Sim as solicitor in pub
John Boxer as Sir George
George Tovey as Neville Salt
Jimmy Gardner as hotel porter
Noel Johnson as doctor in pub
Rita Webb as Mrs. Rusk
