Screenwriters: Whitfield Cook, Patricia Highsmith, Czenzi Ormonde

Producer: Alfred Hitchcock

This dark and disturbing thriller from the master of suspense is one twisted game of fate, malice, and murder. In Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s thriller, tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is enraged by his estranged wife’s refusal to finalize their divorce so he can walk down the aisle with his new paramour – the senator’s daughter Anne (Ruth Roman). Venting on a train car, he strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly quid pro quo with the psychopathic stranger. After Bruno kills Guy’s wife, he expects the same from him, even as Guy is suspect number one for the homicide.