
Strangers on a Train(1951)
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.


When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.

Eric Portman
Lee Warren

Greta Gynt
Vivien Warren

Dennis Price
Richard Fenton

Jack Warner
Inspector Penbury

Maxwell Reed
Jimmy Martin

Hazel Court
Avis Fenton

Jane Hylton
Rita

Andrew Crawford
Sergeant Fox
Charles Rolfe
Prison Warden
Hélène Burls
Charwoman
Dear Murderer is a thriller film released in 1947 exploring themes of wife, perfect crime, film noir, murder, love affair. Directed by Arthur Crabtree, it stars Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price. When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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