YOUNG AND INNOCENT aka The Girl Was Innocent (1937) Nova Pilbeam & Derrick De Marney | Mystery | B&W
YOUNG AND INNOCENT aka The Girl Was Innocent (1937) Nova Pilbeam & Derrick De Marney | Mystery | B&W

Young and Innocent, released in the US as The Girl Was Young, is a 1937 British crime thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney.

Based on the 1936 novel A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tey, the film is about a young man on the run from a murder charge who enlists the help of a woman who must put herself at risk for his cause.

An elaborately staged crane shot Hitchcock devised, which appears towards the end of the film, identifies the real murderer.