The staggering of two railroad tracks and the stumbling of two pairs of leather shoes made Guy Haynes and Bruno Anthony, two strangers who were originally unrelated, meet by chance.
The accidentally dropped lighters and defected witnesses turned this absurd and wishful cross-murder plan into a constrained psychological tug of war.
The plot revolves around the key element of the lighter. In particular, Anthony picks up the lighter that fell into the drain, and Anthony and Guy compete for the lighter on the merry-go-round, which becomes the highlight of the film.
The director Hitchcock, who is known for his insight into people's hearts, continued his consistent high level, using two intense tennis matches to keep the film's tense and stalemate atmosphere escalating.
The audience who swayed their heads from side to side with the bouncing tennis looked like themselves being affected by the plot, and wasn't it Master Hitchcock who swayed and controlled the court!
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