Strangers on a Train

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Call Number: DVD Film-Noir Strangers
On Shelf At: Traverwood Branch

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Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
DVD release of the 1951 motion picture.
Region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono; dual-layer format.
Special features include: commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Highsmith, biographer Andrew Wilson, and others; excerpt from an interview with Alfred Hitchcock; theatrical trailer; Strangers on a train : a Hitchock classic (making-of documentary); The Hitchcocks on hitch (featurette); Strangers on a train : the victim's P.O.V. (featurette); Strangers on a train : an appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (featurette); Alfred Hitchcock's historical meeting (vintage newsreel).
Disc 1. Final release version (101 min.) -- Disc 2. Preview version (103 min.).
Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll.
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.
DVD ; full screen.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

good classic film submitted by kathscot on June 25, 2016, 10:29pm Great Hitchcock film exploring guilt. Excellent performances.

A classic submitted by gardenfaerie on June 15, 2019, 4:25pm I love the premise of this and Hitchcock is the master of suspense.

Just fast forward past all the tennis scenes. Unless you like tennis. :)

A not so nice ride...... submitted by kencza on August 12, 2020, 10:06pm Another suspenseful thriller that starts slow and builds to a crescendo during the famous "merry-go-round" scene. Once again, Hitch takes a Raymond Chandler story and creates a visual and psychological masterpiece. This was likely the high point of Robert Walker's acting career and a true film noir.