So much occurs in pairs. "I have always given it careful consideration, so that my characters never eat out of character. Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines on a train. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. A film of noir moments galore. 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. 2003 biography says she often fell in love with straight women, and her stories Next, Hitchcock tried to hire Ben Hecht, but learned he was unavailable. The "[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. "[22] Robert Burks received the film's sole Academy Award nomination for its black and white photography.[23]. Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. Add on for my new cinema room setup. 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. [4] "Granger is softer and more elusive, more convincing as he tries to slip out of Bruno's conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. The unusual angle was a more complex proposition than it seems. The more you watch, the more you'll see. Barbara tells Anne that Bruno was looking at her while strangling the other woman, and Anne realizes Barbara's resemblance to Miriam. Is 'Strangers on a Train' based on a book? "Vertigo," "Notorious," "Psycho" and perhaps Together the three women, working under the boss's guidance and late into most nights,[17] finished enough of the script in time to send the company East. 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. Each will murder a stranger, with no apparent motive, so neither will be suspected. "[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. Baiting Guy, Bruno reveals that he feels trapped by his hated father (Jonathan Hale). "[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. criminal.". So much occurs in pairs. ${cardName} not available for the seller you chose. 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). "Holden would have been all wrongtoo sturdy, too put off by Bruno", writes critic Roger Ebert. Rogers was effectively blind with the glasses on and needed to be guided by the other actors. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. "[48] It ratchets up a notch when Guy leaves Bruno's compartment and "forgets" his cigarette lighter. 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 Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023. 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. Hitchcock and his cast and crew decamped for the East Coast on October 17, 1950. Hitchcock builds the conflict on this. 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. Review of 2 Disc 2004 Warner Bros edition(with orange & white cover)- As this well known film(from 1951) is equally well analysed & described In many other reviews I'll just give an overview of what's on the discs. then reclining at full length across from Guy in the private compartment. Between the two versions of the film, the "British" version most prominently omits the final scene on the train. reflected events in his private life; he had a nervous breakdown shortly after "[60] Leslie Halliwell felt that Hitchcock was "at his best" and that the film "makes superior suspense entertainment," but called the story "unsatisfactory. "[45] Bruno embodies Guy's dark desire to kill Miriam, a "real-life incarnation of Guy's wish-fulfillment fantasy".[45]. ( IMDB). "The scene gives a beautifully exact symbolic expression to Guy's relationship with Bruno and what he stands for. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Buy it! Anne's sister Barbara says that the police will think that Guy is the murderer since he has a motive. Guy goes to the Mortons' home, where Anne's father informs Guy that his wife has been murdered. She threatens to claim that he is the father, in order to thwart any divorce attempt. + 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. 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. "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. [41] He was also photographed adding the letter L to Strangers on the official studio poster for the film,[26] thus changing the word to Stranglers. Diabolique, intriguing, morally ambiguous and wonderfully directed and narrated. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. # travel # amazing # kit harington # you are amazing # youre amazing. calculation, and usually got away with their crimes. 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 passengers around, it is the location where one's diabolical "you do my murder, I"ll do yours" plot is hatched and used to seduce the other. 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. As Bruno dies, his fingers unclench to reveal Guy's lighter in his hand. He wanted the last line of the film to be Guy describing Bruno as "a very clever fellow". In accordance with the cautious censorship guidelines of the period, Hitchcock would later tame these elements of Walker's memorable performance by trimming and altering certain scenes, so the differences between the original and prerelease versions provide an illuminating illustration of censorship's effect on the story's thematic intensity. 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How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. Roman's role as a nice, understanding girl is a switch for her, and she makes it warmly effective. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. "[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. [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. Over lunch in his private 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. He also showed intense interest in a seldom-considered detail of character delineation: food. And then, Guy's wife turns up strangled to death. [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. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, No Import Fees Deposit & $10.33 Shipping to France. Senator Morton: Dreadful. space underlined the tension in ways the audience is not always aware of. To the man committed to a career in politics, Bruno represents a tempting overthrow of all responsibility. has even been reported in the movie's lore (all the attention goes to "Preferences in food characterize people" Hitchcock said. Consider the scene where Guy is letting himself into his 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. blurting out what everyone is afraid to say. He The camera was on one side of the reflector, Elliott was on the other, and Hitchcock directed Elliott to turn her back to the reflector and "float backwards, all the way to the floor like you were doing the limbo. remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. the references to his private life, but inexplicably doesn't break off the The novel has been adapted multiple times, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 film. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. Bruno's Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keondisparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[19]and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. [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. The His best performance and best casting. These events were the background to their work, while Hitchcock, Cook, Ormonde and Keon were preparing the script for Strangers, and film scholar Robert L. Carringer has written of a political subtext to the film. He got a treatment that pleased him on the second attempt, from writer Whitfield Cook, who wove a homoerotic subtext into the story. Then a police car pulls up 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? I've been hearing about this movie recently and decided to give it a go, and I'm so glad I did! [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. 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. 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. was a lesbian whose novels have uncanny psychological depth; Andrew Wilson's The police assign an escort to watch him. 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. "Isn't it a fascinating design?" Off-handedly, he suggests to Guy that they trade murders: Bruno will kill Guy's troublesome wife, and Guy will eliminate Bruno's despised father. 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. Robert Walker is uncanny. He called the meetings "god-awful jabber sessions which seem to be an inevitable although painful part of the picture business. It is those flaws that set up the real themes of Strangers. The film was later made available on Blu-ray in 2012 with the same contents as the 2004 DVD edition. 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]. revolving ride to get to the controls. The kid [9] The amusement park exteriors were shot there and at an actual Tunnel of Love at a fairground in Canoga Park, California. Barbara Morton: From what I hear she pursued it in all directions. quite aware of Bruno's orientation, and indeed edited separate American and 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. These disturbing sounds, heard to superb effect in cues such as 'The Meeting,' 'Senator's Office,' and 'Jefferson Memorial,' are not just about Bruno, but about how he is perceived by those whose lives he crossesfirst Guy, then everyone in Guy's entourage."[37]. 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. Especially with Bruno, who held the movie together as he did the book." While there, the crew had done some other location scouting. Built on the cummins singapore email address, Animal Adventure Little Luxuries Premium 38 Jumbo Plush Dino. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. It proceeds, as Hitchcock's films On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The director told Ormonde to forget all about the book, then told her the story of the film himself, from beginning to end. 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. That was my favorite part of the movie. Strangers on a Train(1950) is a suspense thriller by Patricia Highsmith, based on the premise that two strangers swap murders. He makes an 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. on a Train" is not a psychological study, however, but a first-rate strangers on a train. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2016. party when he sees Barbara, flashes back to the murder, and flips out. Is he just lonely? Strangers on a Train movie clips: http://j.mp/1yz9FQeBUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/UinqkeDon't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6prCLIP DESCRIPTION:Guy (Farley Granger) notices a sinister face watching him from the crowd.FILM DESCRIPTION:In one of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics, tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) chances to meet wealthy wastrel Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train. (This shot was famously unfaked, and the Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. [40] It is a score that "goes largely uncelebrated."[40]. Where was the tennis match in Strangers on a Train? But that is precisely what they got: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Her suspicions aroused, Anne confronts Guy, who tells her the truth about Bruno's scheme. [70], Strangers on a Train was adapted for the radio program Lux Radio Theatre on two occasions: on December 3, 1951, with Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy, and Ray Milland, and on April 12, 1954, with Virginia Mayo, Dana Andrews, and Robert Cummings.[44]. [42] Hitchcock and Patricia both were afraid of heights, and father offered daughter a hundred dollars to ride the Ferris wheel only to order the power cut, leaving her in the dark at the very top of the ride. Dimitri Tiomkin's score, Robert Burke's cinematography, and Raymond Chandler's screenplay all add to this masterpiece. Farley Granger, Roman, Ruth, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Patricia, Leo G. Carroll, Lorne, Marion, Walker, Robert. Although Hitchcock effective scene shows Guy floating in a little boat through the Tunnel of Love [57] All the major elements of the scene the two men struggling, the accidentally shot attendant, the out-of-control merry-go-round, the crawling under the moving merry-go-round to disable it are present in Crispin's account,[58] though he received no screen credit for it. spotted Highsmith in a cameo in the film. [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. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. temporarily dominant. [19], Even while the torturous writing stage was plodding its course, the director's excitement about the project was boundless. 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. [56] In the book, Bruno dies in a boating accident[56] far removed from a merry-go-round. Having given his characters overlapping qualities of good and evil, Hitchcock then rendered them on the screen according to a very strict template, with which he stuck to a remarkable degree. Haines, a famous tennis player, is recognized on a train by Bruno Anthony, Great transfer, great black and white contrast. But Miriam does not want the divorce, and instead plans to live off Haines's money. "[50], Bruno tells Guy early on that he admires him: "I certainly admire people who do things", he says. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Rowland V. Lee Ranch - Fallbrook Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. The 1987 film Throw Momma from the Train by Danny DeVito was inspired by Strangers on a Train, which is also watched by DeVito's character in the film.[71][72]. 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 . 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. they're now both behind bars as he says, "You've got me acting like I'm a 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. inspiration of a very large dog to distract the audience from what he would Guy, then, in a sense connives at the murder of his wife, and the enigmatic link between him and Bruno becomes clear.[51]. [69] A two-disc DVD edition was released in 2004 containing both versions of the film, this time with the "British" version titled "Preview Version" (102:49 long) and the "Hollywood" version titled "Final Release Version" (100:40 long). Interesting premise but really poor pacing, Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2023. Waiting for the blu ray to comes out, but this Dvd is truly excellent. Bruno proposes, "I'll kill yours, you kill mine." 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: Walker eats up the scenery and appears charming at first, if too friendly, then he delves into hatred and . Is he dishonest? Bruno mentions Guy's missing cigarette lighter to Anne and claims that Guy asked him to search the murder site for it. Bruno sends Guy a package containing a pistol, a house key, and a map showing the location of his father's bedroom. Please use a different way to share. 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. Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2022. Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a U.S. senator. American Film Institute listed the film as #32 in AFI's 100 Years100 Thrills. This is a psychological thriller involves two young men who are strangers upon meeting each other on a train. [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. the wall make it appear Bruno has overtaken them. [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). Robert Walker performance benefits from a subtle tense urgency that perhaps 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. And the chocolate ice cream is probably what he thought about first. Hitchcock also cast Granger in "Rope" (1948), based on the The rest was complete by early November. [22] The rest of the shooting would take place on Warner soundstages, including many seemingly exterior and on-location shots that were actually done inside in front of rear-projection screens. To add the following enhancements to your purchase, choose a different seller. Leopold-Loeb case; it was another story about a murder pact with a homosexual The two men are as different as can be but both have the saem problem. brainy criminals who functioned not out of passion but from careful Sir. in front of Guy's house, and he quickly moves behind the gate with Bruno; [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". in his childhood, when his father sent naughty little Alfred to the police "[13] In the novel, Guy is pursued and entrapped by a tenacious detective.[17]. and the other, far distant, makes a choking gesture. 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. during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps Realizing that Guy is not the murderer, the police ask him to come to the station to tie up loose ends. 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 . [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]. Actually, it's doubly fascinating. used to finish his final film, "My Son John.") Dreadful business. Also in the cast are Ruth Roman, Leo J. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock (Alfred's daughter), Marion Lorne, and Kasey Rogers. --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"}]. Fast, exciting, and woven with wicked style, this is one of Hitchcock's most efficient and ruthlessly delicious thrillers. 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