The Bench (La Panchina)
Synopsis
Sir Alfred Hitchcock was at the height of his powers in this 1951 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel about two men, Guy Haines, a tennis player, (Farley Granger) and the other, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), scion of a prominent family, who casually suggests a pact to commit the perfect murder: Bruno will kill Guy’s wife and, in exchange, Guy will kill Bruno’s father and since neither would have any identifiable motive, neither would ever be suspected.
With a script by Raymond Chandler, Strangers on a Train is classic Hitchcock.
