A Hitchcock gem

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2004)

The first minute of this movie is genius in that the scene pans from the outside of the apartment building then inside throughout his apartment. We know everything we need to know about this man in the course of that scene. He's a photographer, he was injured shooting a car race, he's a world traveler and probably single.
Who can resist spying on the neighbors when that's all you are able to do? The scene where the little dog is killed and all the neighbors come to the window is one of the scariest of all time. When everyone leaves and the blackened apartment across the way reveals the glow of a lit cigarette. He had been watching. It still makes the hairs on my neck stand up. Great film making.