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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
1951
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Starring
Farley Granger
Robert Walker
Ruth Roman
Runtime
101 minutes
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Young socialite Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) has come up with a plan to take care of his hated father once and for all, and when he meets tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) he thinks he has the means to carry it out. The pitch is simple: If Guy takes care of Bruno's father then Bruno will kill Guy's wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), who happens to be standing in the way of a new marriage to a senator's daughter. With no clear motive for either murder, Guy and Bruno will get off scot free and their lives will be improved for their trouble. Guy, of course, rejects the plan, and the two go their separate ways. When Bruno unilaterally sets the plan in motion, Guy learns that the path to happiness and normalcy can (or must?) overlap with that of sadism and guilt.
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN is an expertly-constructed, white-knuckle plunge into fate, coincidence and psychopathology – favorite themes of noir writer Patricia Highsmith, whose novel was adapted here for the screen by Raymond Chandler and realized by the master himself, Alfred Hitchcock.
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN is an expertly-constructed, white-knuckle plunge into fate, coincidence and psychopathology – favorite themes of noir writer Patricia Highsmith, whose novel was adapted here for the screen by Raymond Chandler and realized by the master himself, Alfred Hitchcock.