Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2007. Two strangers will "exchange murders," each killing the person the other Georgetown house when Bruno whispers from across the street to summon him. To think she may have There can be no compromise in his work, his food or his wines. The only sadistic part was I never got the hundred dollars."[43]. Robert Walker plays a psychopathic murderer that is an apathetic rich boy with a lust for the eccentric. She threatens to claim that he is the father, in order to thwart any divorce attempt. Is he just lonely? Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. After appearances in his 2 best British films, "The 39 Steps" (1935) and "The Lady Vanishes" (1938) , the train was elevated to star billing along with the 2 male leads in "Strangers on a Train" (1951).Not only does the train move its Alfred Hitchcock loved trains. "[8] None was more demanding than Bruno's strangulation of Miriam, shown reflected in her eyeglass lens: "It was the kind of shot Hitchcock had been tinkering with for twenty yearsand Robert Burks captured it magnificently. Theatrical Trailer (SD; 2:34). and Bruno struggle as a carnival worker crawls on his stomach under the [63], David Keyes, writing at Cinemaphile in 2002, saw the film as a seminal entry in its genre: "Aside from its very evident approach as a crowd-pleasing popcorn flick, the movie is one of the original shells for identity-inspired mystery thrillers, in which natural human behavior is the driving force behind the true macabre rather than supernatural elements. With no known link between the two men, the police would be none the wiser, would they? # travel # kit harington # modern love # big day # train travel. Guy wants to move into a career in politics and has been dating a senator's daughter (Ann Morton) while awaiting a divorce from his wife. there would be no possible connection between killer and victim. As a plot, this has a neatness that Hitchcock must have found wants dead. Believing that Guy is trying to escape, a police officer shoots at him, but instead kills the carousel operator, causing the carousel to spin out of control. The theme of doubles is "the key element in the film's structure,"[46] and Hitchcock starts right off in his title sequence making this point: there are two taxicabs, two redcaps, two pairs of feet, two sets of train rails that cross twice. Hitchcock Bruno proposes, "I'll kill yours, you kill mine." The abiding terror in Alfred Hitchcock's life was that he would But Hitchcock takes music to another level. Variety praised it, writing: "Performance-wise, the cast comes through strongly. Ordinary Washington locations become sinister hunting grounds that mirror perfectly the creeping terror that slowly consumes Guy, as the lethally smooth Bruno relentlessly pursues him to a frenzied climax. One day, he meets a stranger named Bruno on a train going back home. Bruno mentions Guy's missing cigarette lighter to Anne and claims that Guy asked him to search the murder site for it. where Guy scans the crowd at a tennis match and observes that all of the heads [40] It is a score that "goes largely uncelebrated."[40]. Add on for my new cinema room setup. Upon its release in 1951, Strangers on a Train received mixed reviews. "[48] It ratchets up a notch when Guy leaves Bruno's compartment and "forgets" his cigarette lighter. So Hitchcock had an oversized phone constructed and placed in the foreground. This piece of film he then enlarged and projected onto a vast screen, positioning actors around and in front of it so that the effect is one of a mob of bystanders into which plaster horses and passengers are hurled in deadly chaos. Hitchcock, promotionally photographed many times over the years strangling various actresses and other women some one-handed, others two found himself in front of a camera with his fingers around the neck of a bust of daughter Patricia;[26] the photo found its way into newspapers nationwide. his identity and lifestyle. "[13], Even before sewing up the rights for the novel, Hitchcock's mind was whirling with ideas about how to adapt it for the screen. Brilliant. This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most complex amd multi-layered films. [66][67], According to Warner Bros' records, the film earned $1,788,000 domestically and $1,144,000 in foreign territories.[1]. With cast nailed down, a script in hand, and a director of photography in tune with Hitchcock's vision on board, the company was ready to commence filming. The screen adaptation differed from Highsmith's book in that Haines is given a happy ending, having . I've been hearing about this movie recently and decided to give it a go, and I'm so glad I did! Strangers on a Train (1951) was director Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful, noirish black and white thriller about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) and psychopathic dandy Bruno Antony (Robert Walker), who staged a battle of wits and proposed trading motiveless murders with each other. "[14] But Chandler was a notoriously difficult collaborator and the two men could not have had more different meeting styles: Hitchcock enjoyed long, rambling off-topic meetings where often the film would not even be mentioned for hours, while Chandler was strictly business and wanted to get out and get writing. I like how he displays paranoia as the killer follows him around. Is he dishonest? How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. [21] The scripting team added the tennis match and the crosscutting with Bruno's storm drain travails in Metcalf added the cigarette lighter, the Tunnel of Love, Miriam's eyeglasses; in fact, the amusement park is only a brief setting in the novel.[21]. By month's end, they were back in California. excellent suspect because of the genius of the actual killer's original plan: This Hitchcock thriller pulls out all the stops which would become standards in future films by the master director - an innocent man caught up in a web of trouble, a devious and unbalanced villain, dark humor, intelligent wordplay, and a climax that borders on the sublime. He must play as hard and as fast as he can in order to win the match, get off the court, and overtake the villain . Miriam and the two boyfriends in her odd mnage trois bring "The Band Played On" to life by singing it on the merry-go-round, lustily and loudly Grinning balefully on the horse behind them, Bruno then sings it himself, making it his motto. [44] Of greater interest to Warner was the box office take, and the "receipts soon told the true story: Strangers on a Train was a success, and Hitchcock was pronounced at the top of his form as master of the dark, melodramatic suspense thriller. They would both have airtight alibis for the time of the crime, and they're now both behind bars as he says, "You've got me acting like I'm a He found exactly what he needed right on the Warners lot in the person of staff cameraman Robert Burks, who would continue to work with Hitchcock, shooting every Hitchcock picture through to Marnie (1964), with the exception of Psycho. By the time Guy disembarks from the train, he has unwittingly entered into a deal with the devil, and his life almost immediately begins to unravel. [28] Anne reaches for the big phone, but actually answers a regular one: "I did that on one take", Hitchcock explained, "by moving in on Anne so that the big phone went out of the frame as she reached for it. Perhaps there will be those in the audience who will likewise be terrified by the villain's darkly menacing warnings and by Mr. Hitchcock's sleekly melodramatic tricks. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, No Import Fees Deposit & $10.33 Shipping to France. station with a note asking the sergeant to lock him up until called for. Although Hitchcock admitted to undercranking the shot (artificially accelerating the action),[34] it was not a trick shot: the man actually had to crawl under the spinning ride, just inches from possible injury. sexual tension -- that makes the movie intriguing and halfway plausible, and Guy nervously steps into the shadows with Bruno, literally behind the bars of an iron fence; "You've got me acting like I'm a criminal", he says. Another DVD Features: . is crucial. "[23], Burks considered his fourteen years with Hitchcock the best of his career: "You never have any trouble with him as long as you know your job and do it. The website's consensus reads, "A provocative premise and inventive set design lights the way for Hitchcock diabolically entertaining masterpiece. Rogers was effectively blind with the glasses on and needed to be guided by the other actors. Screenshots. This includes lots of great home movies; Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting (SD; 1:08) is a weird little snippet without sound that shows Hitch interacting with actors made up as historical characters. The camera switches back and forth from the tennis match to Bruno dropping the lighter down a grate of a storm drain and struggling to recover it. sister gets the creepiest lines in "Strangers on a Train," especially The pair has what writer Peter Dellolio refers to as a "dark symbiosis. upstairs in the dark in Bruno's house, Hitchcock told Truffaut, he hit on the [46], This doubling has some precedent in the novel; but more of it was deliberately added by Hitchcock, "dictated in rapid and inspired profusion to Czenzi Ormonde and Barbara Keon during the last days of script preparation. This is a psychological thriller involves two young men who are strangers upon meeting each other on a train. used to finish his final film, "My Son John.") irresistible -- especially since Guy has a motive to murder his wife, was seen rotate in the same direction -- except one.). director of photography In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. A football match is always ninety minutes, stretched to thirty minutes extra and a possible penalty shoot-out at most. Strangers on a Train (1951) Full Cast & Crew See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Writing Credits Cast (in credits order) verified as complete Produced by Alfred Hitchcock . Guy infers that Bruno intends to plant it at the scene of the murder and incriminate him. Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. "[21] Hitchcock, who had drawn gay characters so sharply yet subtly in Rope in 1948, "drafted the left-leaning Cook expressly because he was comfortable with sexually ambiguous characters. a divorce from his cheating wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to marry Anne Hitchcock insists on perfection. Highly recommended. Guy goes to the Mortons' home, where Anne's father informs Guy that his wife has been murdered. The Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. So much occurs in pairs. remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. "[60] Leslie Halliwell felt that Hitchcock was "at his best" and that the film "makes superior suspense entertainment," but called the story "unsatisfactory. Anne. Patricia, as the outspoken young Barbara Morton, kid sister of Guy's fiance Bruno does murder Guy's wife, and then demands that Guy keep his half of the [18], There was not much time though less than three weeks until location shooting was scheduled to start in the East. [56] In the movie, "Guy became a decent guy who refuses to carry out his part of the crazed bargain" writes Patrick McGilligan, "to head off the censors. Hitchcock left behind two versions of Strangers on a Train. was a lesbian whose novels have uncanny psychological depth; Andrew Wilson's Hitchcock and his cast and crew decamped for the East Coast on October 17, 1950. Waiting for the blu ray to comes out, but this Dvd is truly excellent. Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance occurs 11 minutes into the film. during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps the Master of Suspense often asked. Dreadful business. producer (uncredited) Music by Dimitri Tiomkin . been haunting it all of these years. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. Once Bruno Antony acts on 'removing' Guy's wife, the movie ytakes off. A carnival worker crawls underneath it and applies the brakes too abruptly, causing the carousel to spin off its support, trapping the mortally injured Bruno underneath. Although Guy Haines, a famous tennis player, is recognized on a train by Bruno Anthony, whose conversation shows a detailed knowledge of Guy's private life. His gaze falls upon Barbara, whose appearance resembles Miriam's. Also in the cast are Ruth Roman, Leo J. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock (Alfred's daughter), Marion Lorne, and Kasey Rogers. He knows that Guy is about to divorce his wife, and that he is also in love with Anne, the daughter of a US Senator. "[22] While Guy and Bruno fight, the ride runs out of control until it tears itself to pieces, flinging wooden horses into the crowd of screaming mothers and squealing children. The police question Guy, but cannot confirm his alibi: a professor Guy met on the train was so drunk that he cannot remember their encounter. The merry-go-round scene is not in the book, but is taken from the climax of Edmund Crispin's 1946 novel The Moving Toyshop. Next, Hitchcock tried to hire Ben Hecht, but learned he was unavailable. But that is precisely what they got: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. "[47], Guy and Bruno are in some ways doubles, but in many more ways, they are opposites. It is those flaws that set up the real themes of Strangers. Hitchcock allegedly wanted William Holden for the role of Guy "The Band Played On" makes its final reprise during Guy's and Bruno's fight on the merry-go-round, even itself shifting to a faster tempo and higher pitch when the policeman's bullet hits the ride operator and sends the carousel into its frenzied hyper-drive. Strangers on a Train Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras: Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Benchley, Alfred Hitchcock and many more. With his new writer, he wanted to start from square one: At their first conference, Hitchcock made a show of pinching his nose, then holding up Chandler's draft with his thumb and forefinger and dropping it into a wastebasket. said that correct casting saved him a reel in storytelling time, since [12][15] Chandler took the job despite his opinion that it was "a silly little story. It was not enough for Hitchcock to construct merely a world of doubles even contrasting doubles in a strict polar-opposite structure; for Hitchcock, the good-and-evil, darkness-and-light poles "didn't have to be mutually exclusive. Best known is the one Certainly the casting of Farley Granger as Guy and Robert Walker as Bruno Unfortunately, he is serious while Guy brushes it off. Guy wants always used the convention that the left side of the screen is for evil and/or One of my top 50 movies, never seen on a big screen. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. at a carnival; Miriam and two boyfriends are in the boat ahead, and shadows on The director told Ormonde to forget all about the book, then told her the story of the film himself, from beginning to end. audiences would sense qualities in the actors that didn't need to be spelled Is 'Strangers on a Train' based on a book? To add the following enhancements to your purchase, choose a different seller. This fear is at the heart of many of Realizing that Guy is not the murderer, the police ask him to come to the station to tie up loose ends. [13] With treatment in hand, Hitchcock shopped for a screenwriter; he wanted a "name" writer to lend some prestige to the screenplay, but was turned down by eight writers, including John Steinbeck and Thornton Wilder, all of whom thought the story too tawdry and were put off by Highsmith's first-timer status. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. "[59], Conversely, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times criticized the film: "Mr. Hitchcock again is tossing a crazy murder story in the air and trying to con us into thinking that it will stand up without support. The story concerns two strangers who meet on a train, one of whom is a psychopath who suggests that they "exchange" murders so that neither will be caught. [43] First of all, she was not up there alone: flanking her were the actors playing Miriam's two boyfriends "and I have a picture of us waving. "Me, I never do anything important." Chandler completed a first draft, then wrote a second, without hearing a single word back from Hitchcock; when finally he did get a communication from the director in late September, it was his dismissal from the project.[17]. No matter how well a football team plays, the match has a fixed temporality. Strangers on a Train (1951) - Turner Classic Movies Strangers on a Train Brief Synopsis A man's joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly. 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"[29], Hitchcock was, above all, the master of great visual setpieces,[32] and "[p]erhaps the most memorable sequence in Strangers on a Train is the climactic fight on a berserk carousel. Guy He Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (SD; 36:44) is a nice overview with Peter Bogdanovich and several others discussing . This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most complex amd multi-layered films. Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines on a train. At first glance, Guy represents the ordered life where people stick to rules, while Bruno comes from the world of chaos,[49] where they get thrown out of multiple colleges for drinking and gambling. 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Better still, the two-sided DVD edition of this enduring classic includes both the original version of the film and also the longer prerelease British print, which offers a more overt depiction of Bruno's flamboyant and dangerous personality, and his homoerotic attraction to Guy by way of his deviously indecent proposal. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes things into his own hands. The laying bare of Bruno's hidden nature, along with the great set pieces (head-turning tennis match, disintegrating carousel) and suspense as only Hitchcock can deliver, makes for a first-class trip. [17] Although Ormonde was without a formal screen credit, she did have two things in her favor: her recently published collection of short stories, Laughter From Downstairs, was attracting good notices from critics, and she was "a fair-haired beauty with long shimmering hair. would have worked perfectly -- except for the detail that only one of the Director Alfred Hitchcock Writers Raymond Chandler (screen play) Czenzi Ormonde (screen play) Whitfield Cook (adaptation) Stars Farley Granger Robert Walker Ruth Roman See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video meeting on the train, which was probably planned by Bruno, plays more like a [69] According to biographer Charlotte Chandler (Lyn Erhard), Hitchcock himself did not like either the "British" or the "American" version: Hitchcock told [Chandler] that the picture should have ended with Guy at the amusement park after he has been cleared of murdering his wife. Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme whereby he and Guy exchange murders. (SD; 7:22) focuses on Kasey Rogers, who performed under the name Laura Elliot in the film; Strangers on a Train: An Appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (SD; 12:46) has the director espousing his love for Hitch and the film; The Hitchcocks on Hitch (SD; 11:20) features Hitch's daughter and granddaughter talking about Hitch. Bruno is standing behind an iron gate, the bars casting symbolic shadows on his 16793 GIFs. Highsmith (1921-1995), who in her Ripley novels and elsewhere was fascinated by It proceeds, as Hitchcock's films A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. Guy humors Bruno by pretending to find his idea amusing, but is so eager to get away from Bruno that he leaves behind his engraved cigarette lighter. As Guy listens with detached amusement, Bruno discusses the theory of \"exchange murders.\" Suppose that Bruno were to murder Guy's wife, and Guy in exchange were to kill Bruno's father? Strangers On a Train 14+ HD CC Thriller 1 Hour 40 Minutes 1951 4.1 43 Ratings Strange thing about this trip. [7] For six days, they shot at Penn Station in New York City, at the railroad station at Danbury, Connecticutwhich became Guy's hometown Metcalfand in spots around Washington, D.C.[7]. Addeddate 2021-02-10 15:58:01 Disc2 contains the (slightly longer) 'preview version' of the film,(not greatly different from the 'finished article' but still of interest). Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2016. The film's opening conversation scene on the train is like a tennis match in which Guy serves up one weak lob after another for Bruno to put sway. It is a twisting story of a male-on-male Robert Walker is uncanny. One studio press release gave rise to a myth that still lingers on today. an intriguing note from a user of the Internet Movie Database, claiming to have [19], Even while the torturous writing stage was plodding its course, the director's excitement about the project was boundless. Bruno's, which is looking straight ahead at Guy. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. On the train, he is recognized by Bruno Antony ( Robert Walker ), an overly friendly man who talks Guy into having lunch with him in his private cabin. Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022. It was Hitchcock, not Tiomkin, whose idea brought the four evocative numbers[8] "The Band Played On", "Carolina in the Morning", "Oh, You Beautiful Doll", and "Baby Face" to the soundtrack: In one of Hitchcock's most explicit operatic gestures, the characters at the fateful carnival sing the score, giving it full dimension as part of the drama. It looks like WhatsApp is not installed on your phone. "criss-cross" murder deal in "Strangers on a Train" indeed "[43] "This was good stuff for press agents paid to stir up thrills and it has been repeated in other books to bolster the idea of Hitchcock's sadism,"[36] but "we were [only] up there two or three minutes at the outside. My father wasn't ever sadistic. criminal.". In Hitchcock's cameo he carries a double bass. in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," where all the windmills bargain. As usual, Hitchcock kept his name out of the negotiations to keep the purchase price low. [7] The director found her "bristling" and "lacking in sex appeal" and said that she had been "foisted upon him. [9] Granger described Hitchcock's attitude toward Roman as "disinterest" in the actress, and said he saw Hitchcock treat Edith Evanson the same way on the set of Rope (1948). Criss-cross. Great transfer, great black and white contrast. "You're a free man now", he says, just as a police car drives up, looking for the husband of a certain recent murder victim. 2003 biography says she often fell in love with straight women, and her stories "The man who crawled under the out-of-control carousel was not an actor or a stuntman, but a carousel operator who volunteered for the job. Disc1 contains the movie in a good looking & sounding print with optional subtitles + French & Italian language versions and has a very good,entertaining commentary with various people talking about the film, book and much else, with the highlight for 'Hitchophiles' being interview segments of director & Hitchcock biographer Peter Bogdanovich questioning the man himself. Where was the tennis match in Strangers on a Train? The premise is fascinating because it was far more intricate than I had been led to believe. The two men are as different as can be but both have the saem problem. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Hitchcock said that correct casting saved him "a reel of storytelling time", since audiences would sense qualities in the actors that did not have to be spelled out. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. Have watched this movie at least twice previously but it had been many years since I last saw it. Guy is suspended between tennis and politics, between his tramp wife and his senator's daughter, and Bruno is seeking desperately to establish an identity through violent, outr actions and flamboyance (shoes, lobster-patterned tie, name proclaimed to the world on his tiepin). The story concerns two strangers who meet on a train, a young tennis player and a charming psychopath. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. He has no patience with mediocrity on the set or at a dinner table. His best performance and best casting. Hitchcock I love Hitchcock but hadn't ever watched this one until the other day, and I was pleasantly surprised in some ways but mostly very disappointed. "[35], The final scene of the so-called American version of the film has Barbara and Anne Morton waiting for Guy to call on the telephone. "[46] It undergirds the whole film because it finally serves to associate the world of light, order, and vitality with the world of darkness, chaos, lunacy and death. His vigorous tennis match is a highlight of Strangers on a Train. effective scene shows Guy floating in a little boat through the Tunnel of Love A diabolique and dark noir all set between a train and some neighborhood, with a confrontation that often becomes morally ambiguous and a direction that shows all HItch's talent in building creating suspense and scary scenes with just the right photography or even the A diabolique and dark noir all set between a train and some neighborhood, with a confrontation that often becomes morally ambiguous and a direction that shows all HItch's talent in building creating suspense and scary scenes with just the right photography or even the perfect cut and juxtaposition of shots (see how he builds the party scene with the progressive introduction of the bad guy in the initially stiff and upperclass situation). 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