Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from prep school, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise: they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Crime, Film Noir, Mystery, Drama, Thriller |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock |
Directed By: | Alfred Hitchcock |
Written By: | Arthur Laurents, Hume Cronyn, Ben Hecht, Patrick Hamilton |
Cast: | Dick Hogan, James Stewart, Constance Collier, John Dall, Douglas Dick, Joan Chandler, Farley Granger, Alfred Hitchcock, Cedric Hardwicke, Edith Evanson |
In Theaters: | Aug 28, 1948 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 20 minutes |
Production: | Warner Bros., Transatlantic Pictures |
Budget: | $1,500,000 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |