Edith Evanson

A Confederate courier posing as a dance-hall girl marshalls the assistance of an apolitical cowboy in her attempt to push a message across Union lines.

The young son of a recently deceased clown unwittingly joins forces with a mysterious wanderer who ends up using his father's circus make-up as a disguise while the two evade the police.

Alfred Hitchcock directs James Stewart in this macabre spellbinder about two friends who strangle a classmate and then hold a party for their victim's family and friends.