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Strangers on a Train (1951)

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Reviews Counted: 37 Fresh: 36  Rotten:1 Average Rating: 8.7/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Synopsis: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, based on the Patricia Highsmith novel, quickly became one of Alfred Hitchcock's most successful thrillers and remains one of his most popular films. En route from Washington, D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony... STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, based on the Patricia Highsmith novel, quickly became one of Alfred Hitchcock's most successful thrillers and remains one of his most popular films. En route from Washington, D.C., champion tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets pushy playboy Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker). What begins as a chance encounter turns into a series of morbid confrontations, as Bruno manipulates his way into Guy's life. Bruno is eager to kill his father and knows Guy wants to marry a senator's daughter (Ruth Roman) but cannot get a divorce from his wife, Miriam (Laura Elliot). So Bruno suggests the men swap murders, which would leave no traceable clues or possible motives. Though Guy refuses, it will not be so easy to rid himself of the psychopathic Bruno. The film is tightly paced and disturbing from beginning to end, an effect heightened by Hitchcock's inventive camera work, including a terrifying sequence shot through a pair of eyeglasses that have been knocked to the ground. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Producer: Alfred Hitchcock
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 9, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • 2-Disc Set
  • Full Frame - 1.33

Additional release Material:

  • Documentaries - 1. A HITCHCOCK CLASSIC
  • 2. THE VICTIM'S P.O.V.
  • 3. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by M. Night Shymalan
  • 4. THE HITCHCOCK'S ON HITCH

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Hitchcock's handling of the suspense is deadly effective and a quality cast breathe life into some delicious dialogue.

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02/04/08
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Hitchcock erects a web of guilt around Granger, who 'agreed' to his wife's murder, a murder that suits him very well, and structures his film around a series of set pieces, ending with a paroxysm of violence on a circus carousel.

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02/09/06
Time Out
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Hitchcock's favourite device of an ordinary man caught in an ever-tightening web of fear plunges Guy into one of the director's most fiendishly effective movies.

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06/27/01
Almar Haflidason
BBC
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The power of the story - adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith - lies in its simplicity, and Hitchcock’s piles on the sinister layers as only he can.

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Emma Cochrane
Empire Magazine
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4/4

Even more marvelous after a second viewing

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02/17/08
Gabe Leibowitz
Film and Felt
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Perhaps Strangers on a Train still hasn't yielded all its secrets.

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02/04/08
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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4/4

The prototypical Hitchcock thrill ride.

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10/14/05
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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5/5

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10/07/05
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
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5/5

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08/12/05
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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06/09/05
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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04/02/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" is about weakness crisscrossing with evil, with evil pushing hard for the upper hand. Nobody comes away unscathed.

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11/16/04
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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worthy vehicle that displays Hitchcock's narrative ability and explores some of his favorite themes

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10/27/04
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews
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Most of the film is a journey through pure Hitchcockian irony and suspense, and well worth the trip.

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09/22/04
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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4/4

Patricia Highsmith's malicious writing seems perfectly suited to Alfred Hitchcock.

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09/20/04
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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3.5/4

Walker's creepy performance ranks among the best found in any Hitchcock film.

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09/13/04
Matt Brunson
Creative Loafing
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To ignore the subtext during the runaway carousel climax is to be absolutely blind.

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09/06/04
Eric Henderson
Slant Magazine
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Two men, a problem, and a crime is an old theme, but the list of works that exploit it perfectly is a short one. Strangers on a Train belongs on it.

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07/26/04
Mark Athitakis
Filmcritic.com
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06/22/04
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
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Hitchcock was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several famous sequences in Strangers on a Train.

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01/15/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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