In attendance are the victim's father and aunt, the victim's rival for the hand of David's fiancée, who also attends, the servant; and Rupert Cadell, the murderers' former teacher whose flippant repartee regarding social caste festered into the pathological short circuit that led to Brandon's and Phillip's crime. Brandon's sense of intellectual superiority swells to reckless levels throughout the evening as he makes a game out of cleverly dropping his guests hints at nasty goings on. Meanwhile, Phillip grows increasingly frightful and guilt-ridden as Rupert inches ever closer to discovering why David hasn't yet arrived at the party.
An early Hitchcock film, shot in black and white. This film was an experiment to find out if every scene could be filmed as one, unbroken, shot. It is also the earliest film portraying real-life murderers Leopold and Loeb.
Though the characters are never actually stated as being gay, the inferences are there.
