Granger and Dall are two friends who strangle a classmate for intellectual thrills and then proceed to invite his family and mutual friends for dinner – with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for a buffet table.
Their former teacher suspects wrongdoing. Before the night is over, he finds out how brutally his students have twisted his own academic theories.
Utilising long-take filmmaking to masterful effect, this ingenious stage adaptation unites cinematic icons Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart for the very first time – and their now-legendary creative partnership would continue with silver screen classics Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Vertigo.