Number 84 on IMDb's Top 250
Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines 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. Hilarity ensues.
Trivia: Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously to keep the price down, and got them for just $7,500. The stunt where the man crawled under the runaway carousel was not done with trick photography. Alfred Hitchcock claimed that this was the most dangerous stunt ever performed under his direction, and would never allow it to be done again.
Well, Hitchcock's work is very well represented in the Top 250 list. This is a very good thriller of a movie. Robert Walker was very creepy as the psychotic murderer. Just a good solid Hitchcock movie.
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