Reviews

It features a 22-minute scene with only Ray Milland and Anthony Dawson which is largely expository in nature, and yet Hitchcock manages to keep us on edge throughout by continually changing shooting angles, directing character movement and having a slow reveal as to exactly how diabolical the two ch...

Ray Milland stars as Tony Wendice, a tennis pro disenchanted with his cheating wife, Margo (Grace Kelly) and has decided to get revenge by blackmailing an old college acquaintance named Lesgate (Anthony Dawson) into murdering Margo, offering him a portion of the money Tony would inherit from Margo's...

In Rope (1948) Hitchcock did the same planning of a murder, from the murders point of view, and did it much better.

Things get a little convoluted once the issue of apartment keys come into play and I think it distracts from the actual film itself, but despite that, this film was a lot of fun.

The screenplay is superb, the film is 105 minutes long and largely takes place in one room, yet our interest is engaged for the full 105 minutes as we listen carefully to every line that is spoken.

I really don't like Hitchcock's films , I've seen some of his most hailed and they barely keep me interested - but for some reason I gave this a chance (just because it was on instantly viewable on netflix).