In this film noir thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), a psychotic mama’s boy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines (Farley Granger) on a train. Guy wants to move into a career in politics and has been dating a senator’s daughter (Ann Morton) while awaiting a divorce from his wife. Bruno wants to kill his father, but knows he will be caught because he has a motive. Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme whereby he and Guy exchange murders. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes things into his own hands.
NR 1951
Psychological Thriller
1h 41m
