Released Date:
1948-08-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(88618 Reviews)
Director:
Alfred HitchcockHume Cronyn (adapted by)
Patrick Hamilton (from the play by)
Arthur Laurents (screenplay)
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley and as a consequence decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David's father, his fiancèe Janet and their old schoolteacher Rupert from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.
Released Date:
1950-01-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (7566 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph H. LewisMacKinlay Kantor (screenplay)
Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)
MacKinlay Kantor (story)
Millard Kaufman (front for Dalton Trumbo)
Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival, where he meets the perfect girl, Annie, a sharp-shooting sideshow performer who loves guns as much as he. The two run off and marry, but Annie isn't happy with their financial situation, so at her behest the couple begins a crosscountry string of daring robberies. Never one to use guns for killing, Bart is dragged down into oblivion by the greedy and violent nature of the woman he loves.
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