ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНЫЙ ФИЛЬМ! ПРОСТО УАУ!
Захватывает с интересом с начала и не отпускает до самого конца!
Замечательные актеры. Все. От главных до второстепенных ролей.
Главные роли исполнили два неизвестных мне прежде актера - Robert Walker и Farley Granger.
Приятно иногда отвлечься на тех кого ты не знаешь. Тем более, что сыграли они оба отлично!

Красота кадра. Боже, невероятная съемка! И музыка!
Я предклоняюсь.

А еще, сцена со сломанной каруселью просто феерическая!
Страшно, но и смотрится красиво!



The stunt where the man crawled under the carousel was not done with trick photography.
Alfred Hitchcock claimed that this was the most dangerous stunt ever performed under his direction,
and would never allow it to be done again.

Raymond Chandler's version of the sсript ended with Bruno Antony being arrested
and institutionalized, with the final image being the villain writhing in a straight jacket.

In the scene where Bruno searches for the cigarette lighter in the drain,
Alfred Hitchcock personally selected the items of rubbish that lie on the floor.

Alfred Hitchcock originally wanted William Holden to play the part of Guy Haines.

Raymond Chandler seems to have gone out of his way to behave disagreeably to Alfred Hitchcock.
When Hitchcock arrived at Chandler's home for a story meeting,
Chandler hollered from his window, "Look at the fat bastard trying to get out of his car!"

The character of Bruno was named after Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the convicted kidnapper/killer of the Lindbergh baby.

This was the last full feature for Robert Walker who died eight months after filming finished from an allergic reaction to a drug.

There were several changes made from the original novel: the character Bruno Antony was named
Charles Anthony Bruno and Guy Haines was an architect, not a tennis player. Also, Anne Morton
was originally named Anne Faulkner.

Alfred Hitchcock's cameo in the film was directed by his daughter, Patricia Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock: early in the film boarding a train carrying a double bass fiddle as Guy gets off the train
(see also his cameo in The Paradine Case).