I may have to re-buy it, then. I was a little distracted from the film since I couldn't hear the dialogue very well, but I keep thinking about the film afterward.

I don't know if it makes me think of a modern movie, because it does so much that a modern movie wouldn't do. I really got the sense that the husband and wife were ordinary people in a bad situation and not super-people, which you see much less of now. They even had un-choreographed fights, which I really liked. The scene where everyone's just throwing chairs at each other is great. Also, seeing the father get shot ... wow.

But you can clearly see the talent coming through in Hitchcock's direction, even if he thinks he was an amateur.

And Peter Lorre was total win. Very entrancing. And he did all his dialogue phonetically -- he couldn't speak English at the time. Just wow.