Bikini beauty Diana is all about the murdering and the gallows humor. Her psychiatrist Dr.
Paul Burke is a professional golfer who always comes in second to Phillip Carey. He's also got a shaky marriage to Martha Hyer.
This is a terrible film. Carol Lynley is painful to watch, her attempt at a suductress consists of leaning on walls and rolling her eyes.
Carol Lynley and I go way back. Oh, I've never actually met her, but when I was a young teen in 1959 and saw her in 'Blue Denim', I fell in love with pretty Ms Lynley.
Overbaked nonsense from Warner Bros. is one steaming pile of clichés.
Based loosely on the same Patricia Highsmith novel as Hitchcock's film 'Strangers On A Train' this tells of Diana who entices Jerry into a one night affair and thinks she persuades him to swop murders with her. She will kill his golf rival and he has to kill her psychiatrist who is seeking to commit her.
A very campy psycho story which viewed today is unintentionally hilarious. It is so easy to bag this movie, but I actually found it great fun.
A pointless ,useless "remake":although he modified Highsmith's novel,-he told it so in the foreword he wrote for the novel-Hitchcock kept the essential and produced a classic thriller you can watch again and again,with lots of memorable scenes (the murder seen on the glasses,the keys,the merry-go-round which goes crazy,and more).Plus a first-class performance by Robert Walker.
Diana is crazy. You know it right off because within the first five minutes of the film, she utilizes a spear gun to scare a little girl off her ocean front home.
