Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
John Dall
as Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger
as Phillip Morgan
James Stewart
as Rupert Cadell
Joan Chandler
as Janet Walker
Douglas Dick
as Kenneth Lawrence
Edith Evanson
as Mrs. Wilson
Constance Collier
as Mrs. Anita Atwater
Cedric Hardwicke
as Mr. Henry Kentley
Dick Hogan
as David Kentley
Alfred Hitchcock
as Man Walking in Street After Opening Credits (uncredited)