Jumpy, suspenseful Alfred Hitchcock thriller, with Grace Kelly as a woman accused of murdering a man who broke into her house, and Ray Milland as the husband who paid the man to kill her. Most of the suspense in this, one of Hitchcock's most famous films, falls into the will-he-won't-he, edge-of-the-seat variety. Will she escape the hangman? Will he ever give himself away? It doesn't look like it. But the inspector (an outstanding John Williams) has a trick up his sleeve. Milland is impassive, Kelly suitably frightened out of her wits, Robert Cummings has the thankless role of the wife's best friend, and Anthony Dawson is impressively sinister as the public school black sheep who would throttle his own grandmother for money. Later remade after a fashion as A Perfect Murder, it's not suitable for children of a nervous disposition.

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