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Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
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Intimate, grave, contemplative and spare.
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- James StewartRupert Cadell
- John DallBrandon Shaw
- Farley GrangerPhillip Morgan
- Cedric HardwickeMr. Henry Kentley
- Constance CollierMrs. Anita Atwater
- Douglas DickKenneth Lawrence
- Edith EvansonMrs. Wilson
- Dick HoganDavid Kentley
- Joan ChandlerJanet Walker
- Alfred HitchcockMan Walking in Street (uncredited)
Crew
- Alfred HitchcockDirector
- Arthur LaurentsScreenplay
- Joseph A. ValentineDirector of Photography
- William V. SkallDirector of Photography
- William H. ZieglerEditor
- Alfred HitchcockProducer
- Sidney BernsteinProducer
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