Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- philosophy
- banquet
- rope
- strangle
- based on play or musical
- murder
- dinner party
- academia
- suspicious
- suspenseful
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Stewart
Rupert Cadell
John Dall
Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger
Phillip Morgan
Cedric Hardwicke
Mr. Henry Kentley
- Constance Collier — Mrs. Anita Atwater
- Douglas Dick — Kenneth Lawrence
- Edith Evanson — Mrs. Wilson
- Dick Hogan — David Kentley
- Joan Chandler — Janet Walker
- Alfred Hitchcock — Man Walking in Street (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written
- Arthur Laurents
Production
- Studio
- Transatlantic Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
