Young and Innocent is a smaller movie on the Hitchcock scale of important works. It’s thematically simple and fun and full of the kind of light-hearted and easy morality that just feels like an earlier age – but that doesn’t make it any less a Hitchcock film.
Hitchcock set out with the intent of making a movie for younger people, or at least about them – and as was so often the case when Hitch put himself in a new direction, the result is wonderful. There’s a lightness and fun here, that, sadly wouldn’t last through all of his films.
Jason Filiatrault for Weekly Hitch