One of the most popular psychological crime thrillers that Hitchcock ever made is definitely Strangers on a Train, the master's adaptation of crime novelist Patricia Highsmith's debut novel that hit theaters back in 1951.Even though a lot of film scholars over the years considered the movie at least to a degree inferior to Hitchcock's landmark films such as Vertigo or Rear Window, this . fiction when she actually writes mainstream fiction about criminals. To the man committed to a career in politics, Bruno represents a tempting overthrow of all responsibility. 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. 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. After Guy arrives, he and Bruno fight on the park's carousel. frequently use a buried subtext of unstated gay attraction -- as in "The 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. "Isn't it a fascinating design?" To amuse another guest, Bruno playfully demonstrates how to strangle a woman. "[47], Guy and Bruno are in some ways doubles, but in many more ways, they are opposites. "[44], The film includes a number of puns and visual metaphors that demonstrate a running motif of crisscross, double-crossing, and crossing one's double. The only sadistic part was I never got the hundred dollars."[43]. [7] The director found her "bristling" and "lacking in sex appeal" and said that she had been "foisted upon him. Screenshots. to agree to the plan, and Guy trying to jolly him along and get rid of him. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. upstairs in the dark in Bruno's house, Hitchcock told Truffaut, he hit on the Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2007. In a scene where Guy goes Realizing that Guy is not the murderer, the police ask him to come to the station to tie up loose ends. The novel has been adapted multiple times, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 film. The Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. "[18]always a plus with Hitchcock. Guy wants a divorce from his cheating wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to marry Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a U.S. senator. helps explain how Bruno could come so close to carrying out his plan. The worker who called the police tells them that Bruno, not Guy, is the one he remembers seeing the night of the murder. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Hitchcock's even-strained response: "Cut. Add on for my new cinema room setup. DVD Features: . Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. Once Bruno Antony acts on 'removing' Guy's wife, the movie ytakes off. Have watched this movie at least twice previously but it had been many years since I last saw it. The unusual angle was a more complex proposition than it seems. Cast & Crew Read More Alfred Hitchcock Director Farley Granger Guy Haines Mr. Granger appears by arrangement with Samuel Goldwyn Ruth Roman Anne Morton Robert Walker "Preferences in food characterize people" Hitchcock said. is this sense of two flawed characters -- one evil, one weak, with an unstated Strangers on a Train is a 1951 American psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. 16793 GIFs. One gets the feeling of a closeted homosexual constantly coming onto Guy. movie is usually ranked among Hitchcock's best (I would put it below only Highsmith was a chameleon, a renegade, an experimenter, a loner, and a fantastically brave innovator. (The same technique was used Strangers On A Train is about two men, Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony, who meet on a train by accidentally knocking shoes. Senator Morton: She was a human being. [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. Beyond all the historical footnotes and film-buff fascination. + a very good 36 min documentary on the film ,a 7 min feature with 'murder victim' Laura Elliot, an 11 min 'Hitchcock family' feature and a 12min appreciation by director/fan M.Night Shyamalan- so all in all a good package of a film that's always worth another viewing,that's currently available at a good prices. "[61], In contrast, modern reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. spotted Highsmith in a cameo in the film. The aestheticizing of the horror somehow enables the audience to contemplate more fully its reality. "criss-cross" murder deal in "Strangers on a Train" indeed But Miriam does not want the divorce, and instead plans to live off Haines's money. Variety praised it, writing: "Performance-wise, the cast comes through strongly. The original version (Side A) is an all-time thriller classic. She initially praised it, writing: "I am pleased in general. Aboard a train bound for New York, Guy, the tennis pro, is shocked to discover how much information the wealthy stranger, Bruno, knows about him. with him than with Granger's playboy. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. [44] It premiered in New York on July 3, marking the reopening of the extensively remodeled Strand Theatre as the Warner Theatre, and in a dozen cities around the country. scene in the record store, writing something in a notebook. Next shot. Bruno's "[21] The more the film resolved in his mind's eye, the more he knew his director of photography would play a critical role in the scenes' execution. He the references to his private life, but inexplicably doesn't break off the "Hitchcock told me that this scene was the most personally frightening moment for him in any of his films", writes biographer Charlotte Chandler. # travel # amazing # kit harington # you are amazing # youre amazing. "I have always given it careful consideration, so that my characters never eat out of character. and Bruno struggle as a carnival worker crawls on his stomach under the Granger is excellent as the harassed young man innocently involved in murder. "[62] Roger Ebert has called Strangers on a Train a "first-rate thriller" that he considers one of Hitchcock's five best films. "[17] This would be their last collaboration. BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, 23rd Annual Black Reel Awards to Celebrate its 2023 Honorees on February 6th, 15 Films We Cant Wait to See at Sundance 2023, 14th Annual African American Film Critics Association Awards Recipients Revealed, Child of Graceland: Lisa Marie Presley (1968-2023). are swiveling back and forth to follow the game -- except for one head, 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. Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness. 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. I like how he displays paranoia as the killer follows him around. But, for all that, his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand. Interesting more as an "intellectual exercise" than anything else, but indispensable for those interested in seeing how Hitchcock continued to shape his films after an initial cut. Hitchcock himself designed Bruno's lobster necktie, revealed in a close-up to have strangling lobster claws,[26] and "he personally selected an orange peel, a chewing-gum wrapper, wet leaves, and a bit of crumpled paper that were used for sewer debris"[22] in the scene where Bruno inadvertently drops Guy's lighter down the storm drain. producer (uncredited) Music by Dimitri Tiomkin . But a men's three-set tennis match can be eleven hours or thirty minutes, depending on tiebreakers and whether it even goes to three sets at all. While there, the crew had done some other location scouting. "The climactic carousel explosion was a marvel of miniatures and background projection, acting close-ups and other inserts, all of it seamlessly matched and blended under film editor William H. Ziegler's eye. villains, and Hitch agreed with Truffaut that the audience sympathy was more Senator Morton: Dreadful. "[8] Perhaps it was the circumstances of her forced casting, but Roman became the target of Hitchcock's scorn throughout the production. [12][15] Chandler took the job despite his opinion that it was "a silly little story. used to finish his final film, "My Son John.") # staring # stalker # alfred hitchcock # strangers on a train # tennis match. With no known link between the two men, the police would be none the wiser, would they? "[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. during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps The police assign an escort to watch him. Highsmith No matter how well a football team plays, the match has a fixed temporality. Bruno is standing behind an iron gate, the bars casting symbolic shadows on his 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. face, and Guy stands to his right, outside the gate. [24] Exteriors would be shot on both coasts, and interiors on Warner Brothers' soundstages. The accidental overdose of tranquilizers. Barbara Morton: From what I hear she pursued it in all directions. was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022. 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. Upon its release in 1951, Strangers on a Train received mixed reviews. In Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classic, "Strangers On a Train", a naive and weary tennis pro unwisely allows himself to be enticed into the confidence of a seemingly silly stranger. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 7, 2015, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2021, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2021, Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White, English (Dolby Digital 1.0), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), French (Dolby Digital 1.0), Leo G. Carroll, Farley Granger, Hitchcock, Patricia, Lorne, Marion, Roman, Ruth. Having read all about Guy, Bruno is aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to wife Miriam (Laura Elliott) and has been seen in the company of senator's daughter Ann Morton (Ruth Roman). 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This is the so-called "British" version of the film (which was included on the "flipper" DVD a few years ago) which runs about two minutes longer than the final cut and has some alternate takes. But It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951, starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker. And then, Guy's wife turns up strangled to death. Interesting, in this context, is Hitchcock's casting of his own daughter, Once on the train, Bruno orders a pair of double drinks "The only kind of doubles I play", he says charmingly. Guy Synopsis. Suspense through and through, great light/dark contrast in the camerawork. The premise is fascinating because it was far more intricate than I had been led to believe. He's endearing and menacing, intimate and unknowable. Farley Granger, Roman, Ruth, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Patricia, Leo G. Carroll, Lorne, Marion, Walker, Robert. 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. Best known is the one Also in the cast are Ruth Roman, Leo J. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock (Alfred's daughter), Marion Lorne, and Kasey Rogers. As a plot, this has a neatness that Hitchcock must have found "[48] They also demonstrate Hitchcock's gift for deft visual storytelling: For most of the film, Bruno is the actor, Guy the reactor, and Hitchcock always shows Bruno's feet first, then Guy's. strangers agrees to it. Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2021. Barbara tells Anne that Bruno was looking at her while strangling the other woman, and Anne realizes Barbara's resemblance to Miriam. [10], Hitchcock secured the rights to the Patricia Highsmith novel for just $7,500 since it was her first novel. 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. (This shot was famously unfaked, and the One is tennis star Guy Hianes (Farley Granger) who is in the process of divorcing his unfaithful wife and the other is Bruno Antony, (Robert Walker) the psychopath son of a wealthy man who hates. [21] "To all appearances Guy is the all-American stereotype, an athlete, unassuming despite his fame, conservatively dressed," wrote Carringer; he is "a man of indeterminate sexual identity found in circumstances making him vulnerable to being compromised. is crucial. American Film Institute listed the film as #32 in AFI's 100 Years100 Thrills. Hitchcock wanted the phone in the foreground to dominate the shot, emphasizing the importance of the call, but the limited depth-of-field of contemporary motion picture lenses made it difficult to get both phone and women in focus. his best films, including "Strangers on a Train" (1951), in which a Haines, a famous tennis player, is recognized on a train by Bruno Anthony, is a plot made of ingenuity and amorality, based on the first novel by Patricia Guy is offended by Each will murder a stranger, with no apparent motive, so neither will be suspected. "[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. [46], Hitchcock carries the theme into his editing, crosscutting between Guy and Bruno with words and gestures: one asks the time and the other, miles away, looks at his watch; one says in anger "I could strangle her!" On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 98% based on reviews from 52 critics, with an average rating of 8.80/10. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, No Import Fees Deposit & $10.33 Shipping to France. Robert Walker plays a psychopathic murderer that is an apathetic rich boy with a lust for the eccentric. Hitchcock insists on perfection. First Hitchcock got the exterior shots in Canoga Park, using both actors, then later he had Elliott alone report to a soundstage where there was a large concave reflector set on the floor. 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). Robert Walker performance benefits from a subtle tense urgency that perhaps on a Train" is not a psychological study, however, but a first-rate This audiobook version of the classic Hitchcock film is an excellent hour of suspense, tension - and murder! Robert Walker is uncanny. Bruno sends Guy a package containing a pistol, a house key, and a map showing the location of his father's bedroom. The premise is fascinating because it was far more intricate than I had been led to believe. Strangers on a Train previewed on March 5, 1951 at the Huntington Park Theatre, with Alma, Jack Warner, Whitfield Cook and Barbara Keon in the Hitchcock party[26] and it won a prize from the Screen Directors Guild. sister gets the creepiest lines in "Strangers on a Train," especially Strangers on a Train(1950) is a suspense thriller by Patricia Highsmith, based on the premise that two strangers swap murders. BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play broadcast on 29 September 2011 was Strangers on a Film by Stephen Wyatt, which gives an imagined account of a series of meetings between Hitchcock (Clive Swift) and Raymond Chandler (Patrick Stewart), as they unsuccessfully attempt to create the screenplay for Strangers on a Train. Buy it! So much occurs in pairs. place from Highsmith, whose novels have been unfairly shelved with crime 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. After winning a tennis match, Guy evades the police escort and heads for the amusement park to stop Bruno. 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. [4] Hitchcock said that he originally wanted William Holden for the Guy Haines role,[5][6] but Holden declined. "[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. ${cardName} not available for the seller you chose. "[65], Patricia Highsmith's opinion of the film varied over time. Co-adapted by Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train perfectly exemplifies Hitchcock's favorite theme of the evil that lurks just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men.CREDITS:TM \u0026 Warner Bros. (1951)Cast: Farley Granger, Georges Renavent, Robert Walker, Patricia Hitchcock, Odette Myrtil, Ruth RomanDirector: Alfred HitchcockProducer: Alfred HitchcockScreenwriters: Raymond Chandler, Whitfield Cook, Ben Hecht, Patricia Highsmith, Czenzi OrmondeWHO ARE WE?The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. And since it is Guy's foot that taps Bruno's under the table, we know Bruno has not engineered the meeting. A 1951 Psychological Thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (of Ripliad fame), starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker. effective scene shows Guy floating in a little boat through the Tunnel of Love remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. "[4] Blurring the lines puts both Guy and Bruno on a good-evil continuum, and the infinite shades of gray in between, became Hitchcock's canvas for telling the story and painting his characters. Highsmith (1921-1995), who in her Ripley novels and elsewhere was fascinated by Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. Hitchcock 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. Although Hitchcock How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. Behind the Story contains these featurettes: Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (SD; 36:44) is a nice overview with Peter Bogdanovich and several others discussing the importance of the film in the Hitchcock canon; Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V. meeting on the train, which was probably planned by Bruno, plays more like a [14] Talks with Dashiell Hammett got further,[12] but here too communications ultimately broke down, and Hammett never took the assignment. 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. Over lunch in his private DVD Features:Interactive MenusNewsreel:Hitchcock newsreel footageProduction NotesScene AccessTheatrical Trailer:Five trailers of Hitchcock movies, From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. 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