Uneven suspense film from Alfred Hitchcock, watered down from the diabolical Patricia Highsmith original. Too many lumpish set pieces and too many stuffy characterizations (a glamorous tennis star, his loyal fiancée, her U.S. Senator father, a gaggle of Capitol Hill socialites, and an unctuous psychopath). However, the beautifully synchronized opening, Laura Elliott's impersonation of a purebred bitch, and the deliciously sadistic finale are not to be missed. Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll. (1951) — Duncan Shepherd
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