![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson ( Edith Evanson), arrives to help with the party.īrandon and Phillip's idea for the murder was inspired years earlier by conversations with their prep-school housemaster, publisher Rupert Cadell ( James Stewart). James Stewart, the actor who plays Rupert Cadell in the filmīrandon uses the chest containing the body as a buffet table for the food, just before their housekeeper, Mrs. Also present are his fiancée, Janet Walker ( Joan Chandler), and her former lover, Kenneth Lawrence ( Douglas Dick), who was once David's close friend. ![]() Atwater ( Constance Collier) his mother is unable to attend because of a cold. Kentley ( Cedric Hardwicke), and aunt, Mrs. The guests, who are unaware of what has happened, include the victim's father, Mr. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise: they want to prove their superiority by committing the " perfect murder".Īfter hiding the body in a large antique wooden chest, Brandon and Phillip host a dinner party at the apartment, which has a panoramic view of Manhattan's skyline. Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw ( John Dall) and Phillip Morgan ( Farley Granger), strangle to death their former classmate from Harvard University, David Kentley ( Dick Hogan), in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. ![]()
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