Mixing silent film techniques with the new element of sound - only one-fifth of the film offers dialogue - Rich And Strange tells the charming story of Fred Hill (Henry Kendall) and his wife Emily (Joan Barry), a small-town British couple who inherit some money from a rich uncle and suddenly decide to take a world cruise. After their newly found sophistication backfires, the couple have to try to return to good old Albion, but their journey will be full of mishaps and unexpected disaster. Released under the title East Of Shanghai in the US, the film was based on the novel by Dale Collins and was a departure for Hitchcock in both style and tone.