This Hitchcock movie was mentioned as worth watching as a study in psychopathy in this article at
http://www.gordonbanks.com/gordon/pubs/kubricks.html
(the link is on one of the Cass pages). Although the essay deals mainly with Kubrick's attempts at portrayal of psychopaths on film, other movies are listed also.
Having watched many of them, the pick of the bunch ( for me) was Strangers on a Train made in 1951. The hero Guy Haines (Farley Grainger) meets Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on train journey and within a short time is simply run over by Bruno's mixture of charm, guile and persistence. After their conversations, Haines 'agrees' to an exchange of murders and so the plot develops.
For the whole film Robert Walker's playing of a psychopath is mesmeric.
Bruno - "A very clever fellow".
http://www.gordonbanks.com/gordon/pubs/kubricks.html
(the link is on one of the Cass pages). Although the essay deals mainly with Kubrick's attempts at portrayal of psychopaths on film, other movies are listed also.
Having watched many of them, the pick of the bunch ( for me) was Strangers on a Train made in 1951. The hero Guy Haines (Farley Grainger) meets Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on train journey and within a short time is simply run over by Bruno's mixture of charm, guile and persistence. After their conversations, Haines 'agrees' to an exchange of murders and so the plot develops.
For the whole film Robert Walker's playing of a psychopath is mesmeric.
Bruno - "A very clever fellow".
