In this charged thriller inspired by the notorious case of Leopold and Loeb, two Manhattan college friends (John Dall and Farley Granger) strangle a classmate for intellectual kicks and then proceed to invite his family and friends for dinner—with the body stuffed inside the trunk they use for a buffet table. Screen legend James Stewart costars in this macabre chamber piece, striking for both its daring queer subtext and experimental visual style, in which a series of elaborately choreographed long takes are carefully edited to create the illusion of one continuous shot.