this be one of alfred hitchcock best film and and one of his most underrated . i believe it certainly exceed a psycho or the bird for technical artistry and brilliance . it be a macabre and tense and darkly humorous product that will leave you in awe for quite some time . robert walker create one of hitchcock most memorable villain a the father hating and mother fixate ( but aren not most of hitchcock villain mummy boy . ) bruno . it be a disturbing and stunning performance that illuminate the whole film . his character be obsessive and apparently homosexual ( look at those deliberately effeminate tie and hear how he be describe a european ) and strangely charming and dangerous to cross . farley granger certainly know this a he become entangle in bruno sordid web after the pair meet on a train . bruno and know some inside information on guy affair and propose the two wap murder for each other benefit . walker will kill granger slutty and connive wife who be inhibit his marriage to beautiful anne and whilst granger will murder bruno father and who he so intensely hat . everyone happy and right . a win win and a bruno asserts . wrong . granger forget about the indecent proposal and but an obsessed walker doesn not . he commit his murder and be determine to hound granger until he complete his side of the bargain too . stranger become a riveting and suspenseful game of cat and mouse in hitch capable hand . hitchcock be absolutely amaze at create intrigue minor character and building scene . we have the whore miriam and granger estrange wife pregnant to another man . she lasciviously slurp a phallic ice cream cone whilst openly eat up bruno with her eye . barbara morton and anne sister and be a deceptively sweet yet smart and cunning young girl who come out with the most crude remark you will hear from a bespectacled girl in the picture in the 50 . senator morton be authoritative and self absorb . this be one of the most daring film hitchcock ever make and and it be and typical to a hitch film and subtly sexual in detail . this fit into the film noir category with it focus on murder and lie and deceit and shadowy cinematography . walker nut be one for the age and and granger make a convincing troubled protagonist . roman be perhaps weak than the other two and and i never believe her relationship with granger . still and the overwhelming positive cancel out the slight negative and it can be safely say that this be one of the best american film ever make . just look at what hitch do here the originality and the technical skill . we see the murder of miriam reflect in her shattered glass . a game of tennis turn into one of the most thrilling and intense scene you will ever see . a innocent fairground turn into a place of murder and foul occurrence . a young boy balloon be pop callously by walker ( hitch obviously liked what he saw in the third man . ) . child delight at rid the carousel turn into scream and fast paced terror . hitch subverts normal and everyday event like no other . the camera work here be among the best ever see in a hitchcock film and and the premise be to die for . it slick and oozes sophistication and devilish charm . the cross cut between walker and granger character be magnificent granger do or die tennis match be just as vital a villain walker rescue of an incriminate piece of evidence lose down a drain . hitch again build his villain into a nasty and repulsive yet sympathetic and oddly charming ( do anyone else find him strangely attractive and more so than granger . ) piece of work we be just as tense a walker in our hope that he can get the light out of the drain . we need him to and anyway . he hold the key to the story . you will never view an approach from a stranger in the same way again after see this film . amazing . positive .