A Hitchcock movie filled with exitement. 1951. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is an amateur tennis star who wants to divorce his mean and selfish wife Miriam (Kasey Rogers) so that he can get married to his true love Anne Morton (Ruth Roman) who's a rich and beautiful woman.
On the train, Guy meet the charming and clever, but psychopathic, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). After talking about Guy's troubles with Miriam, Bruno comes up with a suggestion, a mad suggestion.
Bruno says that they can "switch murders". If Bruno murders Miriam, and Guy murders Bruno's father. Guy finds this idea silly and he doesn't take it seriously. But when Bruno comes to him some time later and tells him that he has murdered Miriam, Guy has to take serious action against this madman.
This movie is really good and contains the right ingredients for a perfect murder story. The cinematography is great, the actors are good and the murder is awfully terrifying but also entertaining. That sounds mad, but you can't deny that murder in movies can be very entertaining. As long as it's not real.
Robert Walker is very good as the scary but charming Bruno. He's obviously mad but he's way of being is not like someone who's completely mad. He's polite and clever, but still not normal. The caracter makes this movie very exiting.
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