Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
- infidelity
- island
- based on novel or book
- perfect crime
- psychopath
- obsession
- detective
- suspicion
- theory
- carousel
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Patricia Hitchcock — Barbara Morton
- Kasey Rogers — Miriam Haines
- Marion Lorne — Mrs. Antony
- Jonathan Hale — Mr. Antony
- Howard St. John — Captain Turley
- John Brown — Prof. Collins
- Norma Varden — Mrs. Cunningham
- Robert Gist — Leslie Hennessey
- Brooks Benedict — Tennis Umpire (uncredited)
- John Doucette — Detective Hammond (uncredited)
- Harry Hines — Man Under Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
- Directed
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written
- Czenzi Ormonde, Raymond Chandler
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 1,900 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. 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.
