Highsmith was a chameleon, a renegade, an experimenter, a loner, and a fantastically brave innovator. 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. [6] He added the film in his Great Movies list. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. When he reaches his destination, Guy bids goodbye to Bruno, thinking nothing more of the affable but rather curious young man's homicidal theories. [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. [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. (Robert Walker) hates his father. Guy wants Once Bruno Antony acts on 'removing' Guy's wife, the movie ytakes off. "[37] The powerful music accurately underscores the visuals of that title sequence the massive granite edifice of New York's Pennsylvania Station, standing in for Washington's Union Stationbecause it was scored for an unusually large orchestra, including alto, tenor and baritone saxes, three clarinets, four horns, three pianos and a novachord. The two men are as different as can be but both have the saem problem. 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. And since it is Guy's foot that taps Bruno's under the table, we know Bruno has not engineered the meeting. upstairs in the dark in Bruno's house, Hitchcock told Truffaut, he hit on the The first encounter between Bruno and Guy on the train is longer, and features a more obvious homoerotic flirtation by Bruno; In the scene where Guy sneaks out of his apartment to go to Bruno's house, a shot of him opening a drawer to get the map Bruno sketched is added; The very last scene in the US version, which involves a clergyman, was deleted. 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. 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. Strangers on a Train ( 1951) 100-101 mins | Drama | 30 June 1951 Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker [ More ] Director: Alfred Hitchcock Writers: Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, Whitfield Cook Producer: Alfred Hitchcock Cinematographer: Robert Burks Editor: William Ziegler Production Designer: Edward S. Haworth Production Company: She initially praised it, writing: "I am pleased in general. # travel # wine # glass of wine # modern love # train travel. [11] Highsmith was quite annoyed when she later discovered who bought the rights for such a small amount. One studio press release gave rise to a myth that still lingers on today. Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. "Strangers Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. "[48] And at this point the blurring of good and evil accelerates: Guy fails to repudiate Bruno's suggestive statement about murdering Miriam ("What's a life or two, Guy? A recently found longer prerelease British print (Side B) offers "a startling amplification of Bruno's flamboyance, his homoerotic attraction to Guy and his psychotic personality," according to Bill Desowitz of Film Comment. A tennis player, Guy HAINES, is about to finalize the divorce between him and his promiscuous wife. Fast, exciting, and woven with wicked style, this is one of Hitchcock's most efficient and ruthlessly delicious thrillers. [6] In 2012, The Guardian praised the film writing "Hitchcock's study of the guilt that taints the human condition is just one cinematic masterstroke after another". Guy infers that Bruno intends to plant it at the scene of the murder and incriminate him. He narrowed the geographic scope to the Northeast corridor, between Washington, D.C. and New York the novel ranged through the southwest and Florida, among other locales. Is he dishonest? allowed an aging actress to manipulate him in "Sunset Boulevard"). Then a police car pulls up 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. Synopsis. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Between the two versions of the film, the "British" version most prominently omits the final scene on the train. 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]. always used the convention that the left side of the screen is for evil and/or Senator Morton: She was a human being. [19], Even while the torturous writing stage was plodding its course, the director's excitement about the project was boundless. Strangers on a Train marked something of a renaissance for Hitchcock, after several years of low enthusiasm for his late-1940s output,[25] and he threw himself into the micromanagement of some of its production. Upon its release in 1951, Strangers on a Train received mixed reviews. Talking about the structure of the film, Hitchcock said to Truffaut, "Isn't it a fascinating design? wants dead. an intriguing note from a user of the Internet Movie Database, claiming to have With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (coscripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. 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. --Jeff Shannon, 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. Bruno is standing behind an iron gate, the bars casting symbolic shadows on his That was my favorite part of the movie. 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. Anne's sister Barbara says that the police will think that Guy is the murderer since he has a motive. compartment, Bruno reveals that he wants his father dead, and suggests a He has no patience with mediocrity on the set or at a dinner table. "[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. 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. One of my top 50 movies, never seen on a big screen. Guy creeps into Bruno's father's room to warn him of his son's murderous intentions, but instead finds Bruno there waiting for him. Bruno's Bruno knows about Guy well from reading gossip papers. sexual tension -- that makes the movie intriguing and halfway plausible, and [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. Robert Walker plays a psychopathic murderer that is an apathetic rich boy with a lust for the eccentric. whose conversation shows a detailed knowledge of Guy's private life. "[13] In the novel, Guy is pursued and entrapped by a tenacious detective.[17]. Strangers on a Train Preview Version (SD; 1:42:57). 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. The screen adaptation differed from Highsmith's book in that Haines is given a happy ending, having . The band plays on through Bruno's stalking of his victim and during the murder itself, blaring from the front of the screen, then receding into the darkness as an eerie obbligato when the doomed Miriam enters the Tunnel of Love.[39]. It blurting out what everyone is afraid to say. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. 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. "[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. was a classical technician in controlling his visuals, and his use of screen so often do, with a sense of private scores being settled just out of sight. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes things into his own hands. 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. Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022. Buy it! [8], Nevertheless, the score does pick up on the ubiquitous theme of doubles often contrasting doubles right from the opening title sequence: "The first shot two sets of male shoes, loud versus conservative, moving toward a train carries a gruff bass motif set against Gershwin-like riffs, a two-part medley called "Strangers" and "Walking" that is never heard again. Is he dishonest? Interesting premise but really poor pacing, Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2023. [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. In a scene where Guy goes [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. This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most complex amd multi-layered films. Leopold-Loeb case; it was another story about a murder pact with a homosexual Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2022. [12][15] Chandler took the job despite his opinion that it was "a silly little story. out. When Guy arrives home, Bruno informs him Miriam is dead and insists that he must now honor their deal. The copy is terrific and worth every penny. Farley Granger, Roman, Ruth, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Patricia, Leo G. Carroll, Lorne, Marion, Walker, Robert. Waiting for the blu ray to comes out, but this Dvd is truly excellent. Screenshots. Senator Morton: Dreadful. the wall make it appear Bruno has overtaken them. ${cardName} not available for the seller you chose. The U.S. Senate was busy investigating the suspicion that 'moral perverts' in the government were also undermining national security going so far as to commission a study, Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government. The psychopath suggests that because they each want to "get rid" of someone, they should "exchange" murders, and that way neither will be caught. 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. [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. The pair has what writer Peter Dellolio refers to as a "dark symbiosis. The film was later made available on Blu-ray in 2012 with the same contents as the 2004 DVD edition. The website's consensus reads, "A provocative premise and inventive set design lights the way for Hitchcock diabolically entertaining masterpiece. 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. [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]. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. The Enhancements you chose aren't available for this seller. [10], Hitchcock secured the rights to the Patricia Highsmith novel for just $7,500 since it was her first novel. There are several differences in the British version of the film, including: One would have expected Hitchcock's return to major studio filmmaking to err on the side of chastened caution. Then His best performance and best casting. his identity and lifestyle. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. there's the famous sequence involving a runaway merry-go-round, on which Guy Actually, it's doubly fascinating. 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Then a grip put a normal-sized phone on the table, where she picked it up. As with Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train is one of many Hitchcock films to explore the doppelgnger theme. With no known link between the two men, the police would be none the wiser, would they? ingenious plot with insinuating creepiness. 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. "[48] It ratchets up a notch when Guy leaves Bruno's compartment and "forgets" his cigarette lighter. "[62] Roger Ebert has called Strangers on a Train a "first-rate thriller" that he considers one of Hitchcock's five best films. was a lesbian whose novels have uncanny psychological depth; Andrew Wilson's "Shadow of a Doubt"), and its appeal is probably the linking of an 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. Guy Haines (Granger), an amateur tennis star, chances to meet the eccentric Bruno Anthony (Walker) on a train. Beyond all the historical footnotes and film-buff fascination, Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. "[53], Hitchcock continues the interplay of light and dark throughout the film: Guy's bright, light tennis attire, versus "the gothic gloominess of [Bruno's] Arlington mansion";[46] the crosscutting between his game in the sunshine at Forest Hills while Bruno's arm stretches into the dark and debris of the storm drain trying to fish out the cigarette lighter;[54] even a single image where "Walker is photographed in one visually stunning shot as a malignant stain on the purity of the white-marble Jefferson Memorial, as a blot on the order of things. Strangers on a Train(1950) is a suspense thriller by Patricia Highsmith, based on the premise that two strangers swap murders. He got a treatment that pleased him on the second attempt, from writer Whitfield Cook, who wove a homoerotic subtext into the story. [19] Hitchcock preferred the writing credit of Whitfield Cook and Czenzi Ormonde, but Warner Bros. wanted the cachet of the Chandler name and insisted it stay on. 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 . "perfect crime" in which he would murder Guy's wife, Guy would murder 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. 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. "[30] The first six takes went badlyElliott thudded to the floor with several feet yet to go[23]but on the seventh take, she floated smoothly all the way. 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. According to Bruno, it's all to be read in the newspapers, especially the gossip concerning Guy's relationship with the daughter of a United States senator, and the ongoing drama with Guy's soon-to-be ex-wife, a good-time gal who's pregnant with another man's child. Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines on a train. Highsmith (1921-1995), who in her Ripley novels and elsewhere was fascinated by effective scene shows Guy floating in a little boat through the Tunnel of Love Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. "Me, I never do anything important." [38], Tiomkin's contrasting musical themes continued throughout the film, delineating two characters with substantial differences: "For 'Guy's Theme', Tiomkin created a hesitant, passive idea, made-to-order music for Farley Granger's performance. Another 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. He is seen carrying a double bass as he climbs onto a train. There's also the breathtaking runaway merry-go-round ride in the finale, where the operator is shot and the ride keeps going as frantic parents scream and the children hold onto the horses for dear . Bruno follows Guy around Washington, introduces himself to Anne, and appears at a party at Senator Morton's house. Brilliant. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Strangers on a Train . Guy tries to persuade Bruno to seek psychiatric help, but Bruno threatens to punish Guy for breaking their deal. Unfortunately, that was about it. Especially with Bruno, who held the movie together as he did the book." Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keondisparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[19]and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. Sir. This is a psychological thriller involves two young men who are strangers upon meeting each other on a train. Variety praised it, writing: "Performance-wise, the cast comes through strongly. [7] The director found her "bristling" and "lacking in sex appeal" and said that she had been "foisted upon him. 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. Guy is offended by On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Best known is the one --Jeff Shannon, Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, [{"displayPrice":"$8.99","priceAmount":8.99,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"8","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"99","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"ljxr4RXVFhT%2BPKRvZQtlYfMQPNkFvRWItSCJh6gvH8GODWGblG4sOglXU76ALdS03DRPExbb%2FgT4ZclL52JN1JP63V80l0djKnnQ%2FjE7RB2b7X5Iga6UtCyo5UN0UwFtFdwFKEiMfxcgxAttav%2FH4txtYXoihOdmJf71qTDZgulgppJc7UoNeUIOV4CKcI3Q","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED"}]. there would be no possible connection between killer and victim. Hitchcock "[65], Patricia Highsmith's opinion of the film varied over time. "[18]always a plus with Hitchcock. "The scene gives a beautifully exact symbolic expression to Guy's relationship with Bruno and what he stands for. Hecht suggested his assistant, Czenzi Ormonde, to write the screenplay. I n the latest Oscar Isaac vehicle, Mojave, director William Monaghan recycles the familiar tale of one man's seemingly chance encounter with a menacing stranger - a trope that was perfected more than six decades ago by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 masterpiece Strangers on a Train. Critic Jack Sullivan had kinder words for Tiomkin's score for Strangers than did biographer Spoto: "[S]o seamlessly and inevitably does it fit the picture's design that it seems like an element of Hitchcock's storyboards", he writes. Guy, on the other hand, shows little interest in eating the lunch, apparently having given it no advance thought, in contrast to Bruno, and he merely orders what seems his routine choice, a hamburger and coffee. He always used the convention that the left side of the screen is for evil and/or weaker characters, while the right is for characters who are either good or temporarily dominant. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3]. has even been reported in the movie's lore (all the attention goes to "Hitchcock told me that this scene was the most personally frightening moment for him in any of his films", writes biographer Charlotte Chandler. pickup than a chance encounter. Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance occurs 11 minutes into the film. "[I]n one of the most unexpected, most aesthetically justified moments in film,"[29] the slow, almost graceful, murder is shown as a reflection in the victim's eyeglasses, which have been jarred loose from her head and dropped to the ground. Tom Ripley falls in love not so much with his quarry Dickie Greenleaf as with "[61], In contrast, modern reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. Man on a train is about evil and destiny hiding behind the corner, about life changing in a bit because threat is waiting for us, and it's a fantastic example of great storytelling developing a simple yet effective subject: two men meets on a train, and one word too many could change everything. But perhaps the most memorable music in Strangers is the calliope music,[8] heard first at the fairground and again, later, when Bruno is strangling Mrs. Cunningham at Senator Morton's soire, and experiences his unfortunate flashback and subsequent fainting spell. famous sequences in "Strangers on a Train." This ending, however, was not acceptable to Warner Bros.[28], In 1997, Warner released the film onto DVD as a double sided disc, with the "British" version on one side, and the "Hollywood" version on the reverse. "[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. It's worth noticing that British version of the film -- cutting down the intensity of the Summaries A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. bargain. The creepiness factor holds up very well. # travel # kit harington # modern love # big day # train travel. during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps Patricia Hitchcock and Kasey Rogers look a little alike and wear very Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022. As a plot, this has a neatness that Hitchcock must have found [24] Exteriors would be shot on both coasts, and interiors on Warner Brothers' soundstages. 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. 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. When Bruno drops the lighter down the sewer, he tells the bystanders, he needs help retrieving his cigarette CASE. 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. Miriam is dead and insists that he must now honor their deal Great Movies list anne, and with. 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