‘Strangers on a Train’ is a murder-suspense, from director Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1950 debut novel by Patricia Highsmith, with a screenplay co-written by Raymond Chandler. [39] It is a score that "goes largely uncelebrated."[39]. The director told Ormonde to forget all about the book, then told her the story of the film himself, from beginning to end. In a final train scene, as another stranger attempts to strike up conversation with Guy in the same way as had Bruno, Guy and Anne avoid speaking with him. With a release scheduled for early summer, the studio press agents swung into high gear early in 1951. Some people are better off dead.") There can be no compromise in his work, his food or his wines. 'If the man had raised his head even slightly", Hitchcock said, "it would have gone from being a suspense film into a horror film. "[15] This would be their last collaboration. The movie's nominal romance seems almost irrelevant. It is Bruno's achievement to move Guy into his realm (represented by the merry-go-round) and force HIM to transgress (break the law, hope for murder (Bruno's)).Bruno is quite literally fighting patriarchy. [8], Kasey Rogers (whose performance as Miriam is credited as Laura Elliott) noted that she had perfect vision at the time the movie was made, but Hitchcock insisted she wear the character's thick eyeglasses, even in long shots when regular glass lenses would have been undetectable. 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. Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. Guy tries to persuade Bruno to seek psychiatric help; Bruno threatens to make Guy pay for the crime from which he is benefiting. Distinguished professors of mathematics sing about goats on trains. One could study it forever. STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, Copenhagen. "[21] 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 years—and Robert Burks captured it magnificently. [56] 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,[57] though he received no screen credit for it. See the fabulous presenters and gracious winners at this year's Oscars. Based on the novel of the same name, Strangers on a Train concerns two strangers, a tennis player & a charming psychopath, who meet up on a train where the latter tells the former his theory of a 'perfect murder'. 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. Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keon—disparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[17]—and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. "[58], 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. ‘Strangers on a Train’ is a murder-suspense, from director Alfred Hitchcock, based on the 1950 debut novel by Patricia Highsmith, with a screenplay co-written by Raymond Chandler. Strangers On a Train (Tom Finn) - 4:20 rating: *** stars The title track was a mess, unable to decided whether it wanted to be a power ballad, or a slice of power-pop. The film was later made available on Blu-ray in 2012 with the same contents as the 2004 DVD edition. [35] Although that account continues to be published in books to this day, "it just wasn't true", according to Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The master's favorite theme, the transference of guilt, is explicit in the sordid relationship between Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony. Bruno orders with gusto and with an interest in what he is going to eat — lamb chops, French fries, and chocolate ice cream. [6] The director found her "bristling" and "lacking in sex appeal" and said that she had been "foisted upon him. How does this change their dynamic? Next shot. She initially praised it, writing: "I am pleased in general. [16]—always a plus with Hitchcock. [63][64], According to Warner Bros' records, the film earned $1,788,000 domestically and $1,144,000 in foreign territories.[1]. The fairground finale is a remarkable, dizzying fusion of exciting, tense set-piece, black comedy and symbolic site. Correctly surmising that Bruno intends to incriminate him with it, Guy eludes the police after winning a match and heads for the amusement park to stop Bruno. 4.) Strangers on a Train is a 1951 film about a tennis star, Guy Haines, who meets a stranger on a train who offers to exchange murders. "[46], Guy and Bruno are in some ways doubles, but in many more ways, they are opposites. [12] 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. 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