Champagne

Hitchcock's frothy, stylish comedy — dismissed by the director himself as his least favorite film, but full of visual pleasures for those willing to take it on its own terms. Betty Balfour plays a spoiled heiress who defies her millionaire father by flying to Paris to chase her boyfriend. When daddy pretends to have lost his fortune to teach her a lesson, she must navigate the real world for the first time, working as a flower girl and fending off lecherous admirers. The film is lighter than air, but Hitchcock's visual wit is sharp: the famous opening shot through the bottom of a champagne glass, the ocean-crossing sequence filmed with tilting cameras and sliding furniture, and a dinner scene where every man at the table is photographed as a potential predator. Not major Hitchcock, but unmistakably Hitchcock.