This may be one of Alfred Hitchcock's more famous films, but I hadn't seen it before. And while the story is good and the acting is fine, for me it doesn't quite make it as a thriller since sometimes it became a comedy! It's a 7 (the story was ok, but the filming was faultless).
The story is well known - two strangers meet on train and discover that they both would like to kill someone. The eccentric Bruno suggests that they "swap murders", but the tennis pro, Guy, thinks he is joking. Bruno turns out to be more than eccentric, eccentric in fact, and he murders estranged Guy's wife on a island at a fun fair lake. Bruno then starts pressuring Guy to murder his father, but when he refuses, Bruno threatens to leave a clue on the island will frame guy. The cops are already very suspicious of Guy and so must avoid them, and race bruno to prevent the evidence from being planted.
Insane Bruno, along with his dotty mother add comedy to the film. And when he gate crashes Guy's party it's even more funny. The thriller part of the film is well executed, the murder on the island accompanied with fun fair music, and the ending race and fight and very memorable. But by the far, the filming was superb - wild angles and points of view, such as the murder reflected in glasses, the stretching for the lighter, poses by desk lamps, crawling under carousels, and even distant standing ominous silhouettes, there's just so much!
Who is doing such brilliant filming theses days?
The story is well known - two strangers meet on train and discover that they both would like to kill someone. The eccentric Bruno suggests that they "swap murders", but the tennis pro, Guy, thinks he is joking. Bruno turns out to be more than eccentric, eccentric in fact, and he murders estranged Guy's wife on a island at a fun fair lake. Bruno then starts pressuring Guy to murder his father, but when he refuses, Bruno threatens to leave a clue on the island will frame guy. The cops are already very suspicious of Guy and so must avoid them, and race bruno to prevent the evidence from being planted.
Insane Bruno, along with his dotty mother add comedy to the film. And when he gate crashes Guy's party it's even more funny. The thriller part of the film is well executed, the murder on the island accompanied with fun fair music, and the ending race and fight and very memorable. But by the far, the filming was superb - wild angles and points of view, such as the murder reflected in glasses, the stretching for the lighter, poses by desk lamps, crawling under carousels, and even distant standing ominous silhouettes, there's just so much! 
Who is doing such brilliant filming theses days?
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