In a posh London flat, suave ex-tennis pro Tony Wendrice (Ray Milland) is planning to murder Margot (Grace Kelly), his rich but adulterous wife who is cheating on him with American mystery writer Mark Halliday (Robert Cummings), by ensnaring a sleazy ex-schoolmate named Swann (Anthony Dawson) to do the task by trapping him in a blackmail scheme. Alfred Hitchcock’s film of Frederick (“Wait Until Dark”) Knotts hit mystery play is necessarily stage bound, even more so than the director’s previous stab at cinematically challenging the Proscenium Arch in “Rope”.
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