homosexuality still dared not speak its name very loudly in 1951, Hitchcock was Some audience feedback arriving at Jack Warner's office condemned the film for its sordid story, while just as many others were favorable. stunt man could have been killed; Hitchcock said he would never take such a 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. After winning a tennis match, Guy evades the police escort and heads for the amusement park to stop Bruno. The been haunting it all of these years. out. After Guy arrives, he and Bruno fight on the park's carousel. Unfortunately, that was about it. Guy, then, in a sense connives at the murder of his wife, and the enigmatic link between him and Bruno becomes clear.[51]. with him than with Granger's playboy. be accused of a crime he did not commit. Hitchcock insists on perfection. "[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. they're now both behind bars as he says, "You've got me acting like I'm a "[27], One of the most memorable single shots in the Hitchcock canon it "is studied by film classes", says Laura Elliott, who played Miriam[28] is her character's strangulation by Bruno on the Magic Isle. [12], Securing the rights to the novel was the least of the hurdles Hitchcock would have to vault to get the property from printed page to screen. [24] Exteriors would be shot on both coasts, and interiors on Warner Brothers' soundstages. While Hitchcock strips out much of the textured sociopathy of Bruno's machinations, Hitchcocks preserves the ripely perverse relationship and its intimacy and murderous expression. "[53] Bruno tells Guy what he has done and gives him the glasses. 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. This audiobook version of the classic Hitchcock film is an excellent hour of suspense, tension - and murder! As Bruno dies, his fingers unclench to reveal Guy's lighter in his hand. Each will murder a stranger, with no apparent motive, so neither will be suspected. a divorce from his cheating wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to marry Anne 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. whose conversation shows a detailed knowledge of Guy's private life. Guy [20], There was one point of agreement between Chandler and Hitchcock, although it would come only much later, near the release of the film: they both acknowledged that since virtually none of Chandler's work remained in the final script, his name should be removed from the credits. [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. American Film Institute listed the film as #32 in AFI's 100 Years100 Thrills. [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]. The final scene of the so-called "American" version of this movie had Barbara and Anne Morton waiting for Guy to call on the telephone. Please use a different way to share. 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. 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. The creepiness factor holds up very well. The novel has been adapted multiple times, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 film. "[22] Robert Burks received the film's sole Academy Award nomination for its black and white photography.[23]. The two sets of feet in the title sequence match each other in motion and in cutting, but they immediately establish the contrast between the two men: the first shoes "showy, vulgar brown-and-white brogues; [the] second, plain, unadorned walking shoes. Strangers on a Train(1950) is a suspense thriller by Patricia Highsmith, based on the premise that two strangers swap murders. 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. Sometime later, another stranger on a train attempts to strike up conversation with Guy in the same way as had Bruno. While he had previous Hitchcock experience on Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and would go on to score two more consecutive Hitchcock films, the director and composer "simply never developed much of a kinship"[8] and "the Hitchcock films are not Tiomkin's best". Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2022. He called the meetings "god-awful jabber sessions which seem to be an inevitable although painful part of the picture business. calculation, and usually got away with their crimes. I suspect the things we might see so plainly now - the homosexual longing in Bruno, the wicked contrast of the man of action and the man of ideas, the superficiality of Guy and the hungry depth . the references to his private life, but inexplicably doesn't break off the Brilliant. his identity and lifestyle. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. Consider the scene where Guy is letting himself into his man becomes the obvious suspect in the strangulation of his wife. 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. "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. "Strangers The Then a grip put a normal-sized phone on the table, where she picked it up. there's the famous sequence involving a runaway merry-go-round, on which Guy [19] Three notable additions the trio had made were the runaway merry-go-round, the cigarette lighter, and the thick eyeglasses. 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. Hitchcock Where was the tennis match in Strangers on a Train? This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most complex amd multi-layered films. Certainly the casting of Farley Granger as Guy and Robert Walker as Bruno Ebert wrote: Hitchcock was a classical technician in terms of controlling his visuals, and his use of screen space underlined the tension in ways the audience isn't always aware of. A football match is always ninety minutes, stretched to thirty minutes extra and a possible penalty shoot-out at most. Bruno does murder Guy's wife, and then demands that Guy keep his half of the Some people are better off dead.") filming was completed, was institutionalized for treatment, and died of an [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. spotted Highsmith in a cameo in the film. 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. 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. 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. Hitchcock left behind two versions of Strangers on a Train. Addeddate 2021-02-10 15:58:01 The director told Ormonde to forget all about the book, then told her the story of the film himself, from beginning to end. ( IMDB). 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 . When he reaches his destination, Guy bids goodbye to Bruno, thinking nothing more of the affable but rather curious young man's homicidal theories. Burks was an exceptionally apt choice for what would prove to be Hitchcock's most Germanic film in years: the compositions dense, the lighting almost surreal, the optical effects demanding. 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. Screenshots. used to finish his final film, "My Son John.") Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keondisparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[19]and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. 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. inspiration of a very large dog to distract the audience from what he would Anne visits Bruno's home and tries explaining to his befuddled mother that her son is a murderer. has even been reported in the movie's lore (all the attention goes to Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. 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. Is he dishonest? 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I've been hearing about this movie recently and decided to give it a go, and I'm so glad I did! + 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. Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022. I like how he displays paranoia as the killer follows him around. 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. Farley Granger, Roman, Ruth, Alfred Hitchcock, Hitchcock, Patricia, Leo G. Carroll, Lorne, Marion, Walker, Robert. compartment, Bruno reveals that he wants his father dead, and suggests a 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. Hitchcock also cast Granger in "Rope" (1948), based on the 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]. [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). 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