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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
1948•1h 21m•PG•★ 7.9
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Synopsis
Two arrogant Manhattan roommates strangle a Harvard classmate with a cord to demonstrate their Nietzschean intellectual superiority, hiding the body inside an antique chest and hosting a dinner party around it for the victim's family and their former housemaster. Alfred Hitchcock's experimental masterpiece shot in continuous, real-time 10-minute takes starring James Stewart.
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DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
WriterArthur Laurents
CinematographyWilliam V. SkallJoseph A. Valentine
Principal Cast
James StewartRupert Cadell
John DallBrandon Shaw
Farley GrangerPhillip Morgan
Cedric HardwickeMr. Henry Kentley
Constance CollierMrs. Anita Atwater
Douglas DickKenneth Lawrence
Edith EvansonMrs. Wilson
Dick HoganDavid Kentley
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Runtime1h 21m (81 mins)
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DirectorAlfred Hitchcock
LanguagesEnglish
CountryUS
StudioTransatlantic Pictures • Warner Bros. Pictures
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