Rich & Strange aka East Of Shanghai was another early Hitchcock talking movie from 1931 that her adapted for the screen himself, from a novel penned by Dale Collins. It involves a young married couple living a quiet boring middle class existence in London, when a sudden and unexpected inheritance, this leads them to believe that the money will be the vehicle to allow them to realize all their dreams; the problem is that they don't have very imaginative dreams to begin with. Deciding on taking a world cruise, they board the liner behaving like "rich people"--more like caricatures of rich people. It doesn't take long on board before they have to mingle with real rich people, which immediately start to take their toll on the relationship. Soon the husband is bedridden with sea sickness and the wife is left alone to roam the ship alone. Turns out not everyone on board is above-board, so to speak, and at least one very suspicious guy attaches himself to her....and this guy is creepy! But she can't see it. I don't know when Hitchcock decided to make this movie initially, because it actually uses quite a few title cards. So, perhaps he intended to make this as a silent several years before and ordered the title cards, and decided to use the ones that describe scene, instead of narration.
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