face slap   father son relationship   blood   corpse   new york city   hat   male female relationship   drink   sacrifice   piano   no music   dinner party   guilt   apartment   chicken   storytelling   experimental film   friend   director cameo   dead body   based on true story   banquet   long take   ambition   wealth   metronome   decadence   philosophy   book   maid   housekeeper   rope   champagne   arrogance   teacher   cigarette case   broken glass   aunt nephew relationship   concert   poverty   morality   weakness   gunshot   conversation with character playing piano   based on play   horoscope   gay subtext   homosexual subtext   roommate   altar   champagne glass   chest   contempt   crime and punishment   cutting hand   deliberately leaving something behind   ego   hidden corpse   housemaster   intellectual   leopold loeb case   loeb leopold   nightfall   perfect murder   preparatory school   privilege   reference to cary grant   reference to errol flynn   reference to james mason   reference to mary pickford   schoolmate   selectivity   single set production   skyline   strangling a chicken   supper   trunk   unedited cinematic style   male male relationship   morbidity   assumed superiority   waiting in line   real time   friendship   death   murder   writer   fear   mother son relationship   teacher student relationship   telephone call   title spoken by character   drinking   strangulation   party   psychopath   publisher   unemployment   piano player   suspense   suspicion   murderer