Chief Inspector : No, discretion is not traditionally the strong suit of the psychopath, dear. Believe me, that's what we're dealing with. You ought to read his wife's divorce petition.
discretion=思慮深さ petition=請願(書)、嘆願(書)、陳情(書)
トリビア。ヘンリー・マンシーニが音楽クビ。 DVDのメイキングで冒頭の音楽を少し紹介していた。
Henry Mancini was originally hired to score the film. According to accounts, upon hearing the proposed score, Hitchcock yelled at Mancini: "If I had wanted Bernard Herrmann, I would have hired him!" Mancini was fired from the project.
監督のカメオ出演、最初のプラン。
Hitchcock originally planned to do his cameo as the body floating in the river. A dummy was even constructed to do the shot.
This was the first film Hitchcock shot in Britain since Stage Fright (1950).
This was the first Hitchcock film to show nude scenes.