Two thrill-seeking friends (Granger and Dall) strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends, serving refreshments on a buffet table fashioned from a trunk containing the lifeless body. When dinner conversation revolves around talk of the 'perfect murder', their former teacher (Stewart) becomes increasingly suspicious that his students have turned his intellectual theories into brutal reality.

• 1 hr 22 min
• Directed by

  Alfred Hitchcock
• Written by Hume Cronyn, Ben Hecht, Arthur Laurents

• Starring

  James Stewart

  ,

  John Dall

  ,

  Farley Granger

  ,

  Cedric Hardwicke

  ,

  Constance Collier

  ,

  Joan Chandler

  ,

  Douglas Dick

  ,

  Edith Evanson

  ,

  Dick Hogan