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. 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. his identity and lifestyle. Hitchcock builds the conflict on this. Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2021. conversation -- which ends on an ambiguous note, with Bruno trying to get Guy I've been hearing about this movie recently and decided to give it a go, and I'm so glad I did! Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. Robert Walker is fabulous as the twisted Bruno. With a release scheduled for early summer, the studio press agents swung into high gear early in 1951. The psychological game that Bruno plays on Guy is to force him to kill Bruno's over-bearing father. 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. He's endearing and menacing, intimate and unknowable. Bruno does murder Guy's wife, and then demands that Guy keep his half of the there would be no possible connection between killer and victim. "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. inspiration of a very large dog to distract the audience from what he would If you haven't seen it, it's time to change that! He makes an Once Bruno Antony acts on 'removing' Guy's wife, the movie ytakes off. 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]. Unfortunately, he is serious while Guy brushes it off. The emotionally-imblanced and immature Bruno expresses his feelings and Guy his problems in a chit chat. She threatens to claim that he is the father, in order to thwart any divorce attempt. The premise is fascinating because it was far more intricate than I had been led to believe. compartment, Bruno reveals that he wants his father dead, and suggests a party when he sees Barbara, flashes back to the murder, and flips out. he would like to "strangle" Miriam. a divorce from his cheating wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to marry Anne 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. Hitchcock allegedly wanted William Holden for the role of Guy 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 . Guy Hitchcock's even-strained response: "Cut. Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. [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. Disc1 contains the movie in a good looking & sounding print 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. "[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. A football match is always ninety minutes, stretched to thirty minutes extra and a possible penalty shoot-out at most. "Me, I never do anything important." "[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? [13] Treatment writer Cook used Guy to make the film "a parable quietly defiant of the Cold War hysteria sweeping America. 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]. The rest was complete by early November. [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. 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. was a classical technician in controlling his visuals, and his use of screen homosexuality still dared not speak its name very loudly in 1951, Hitchcock was [36] Although that account continues to be published in books to this day, "it just wasn't true", according to Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell. As a plot, this has a neatness that Hitchcock must have found His gaze falls upon Barbara, whose appearance resembles Miriam's. rotate in the same direction -- except one.). [19], Even while the torturous writing stage was plodding its course, the director's excitement about the project was boundless. [24] Exteriors would be shot on both coasts, and interiors on Warner Brothers' soundstages. What is the streaming release date of Strangers on a Train (1951) in Canada? Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Screenshots. 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. 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. would have worked perfectly -- except for the detail that only one of the How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. "[62] Roger Ebert has called Strangers on a Train a "first-rate thriller" that he considers one of Hitchcock's five best films. [7] The director found her "bristling" and "lacking in sex appeal" and said that she had been "foisted upon him. sister gets the creepiest lines in "Strangers on a Train," especially filming was completed, was institutionalized for treatment, and died of an The the Forest Hills tennis club. Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023. 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. Bruno's, which is looking straight ahead at Guy. 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. Is 'Strangers on a Train' based on a book? 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 . "[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. "[8] Perhaps it was the circumstances of her forced casting, but Roman became the target of Hitchcock's scorn throughout the production. Where was the tennis match in Strangers on a Train? On a train, wealthy smooth-talking psychopath Bruno Antony recognizes Haines and reveals his idea for a murder scheme: two strangers meet and "swap murders" Bruno suggests he kill Miriam and Guy kill Bruno's hated father. [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". The film's climax, which takes place on a carousel, is one of the most complex scenes ever shot by the director. 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. His best performance and best casting. brainy criminals who functioned not out of passion but from careful Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022. That was my favorite part of the movie. There can be no compromise in his work, his food or his wines. Talking about the structure of the film, Hitchcock said to Truffaut, "Isn't it a fascinating design? the Master of Suspense often asked. 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. been all wrong -- too sturdy, too put off by Bruno (despite the way Holden 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. scene in the record store, writing something in a notebook. His obsession with being wrongly accused no doubt refers to a traumatic episode 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. My mum had said this was a great film, and she was right. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. wants dead. A very good choice for train food. be accused of a crime he did not commit. ingenious plot with insinuating creepiness. 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. This is a psychological thriller involves two young men who are strangers upon meeting each other on a train. [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 softer and more elusive, more convincing as he tries to slip out of Bruno's Highsmith (1921-1995), who in her Ripley novels and elsewhere was fascinated by 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. 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. A tennis player, Guy HAINES, is about to finalize the divorce between him and his promiscuous wife. whose conversation shows a detailed knowledge of Guy's private life. place from Highsmith, whose novels have been unfairly shelved with crime Guy tries to persuade Bruno to seek psychiatric help, but Bruno threatens to punish Guy for breaking their deal. are swiveling back and forth to follow the game -- except for one head, Yet both men, like so many of Hitchcock's protagonists, are insecure and uncertain of their identity. He is seen carrying a double bass as he climbs onto a train. He also showed intense interest in a seldom-considered detail of character delineation: food. strangers agrees to it. One studio press release gave rise to a myth that still lingers on today. Some people are better off dead.") 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. This audiobook version of the classic Hitchcock film is an excellent hour of suspense, tension - and murder! The director told Ormonde to forget all about the book, then told her the story of the film himself, from beginning to end. Guy nervously steps into the shadows with Bruno, literally behind the bars of an iron fence; "You've got me acting like I'm a criminal", he says. Anne. Unfortunately, that was about it. 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Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2007. always used the convention that the left side of the screen is for evil and/or "[37] Bruno, who tells Guy on the train that he admires people "who do things", gets a more vigorous musical treatment from Tiomkin: "Harmonic complexity defines the motifs associated with Bruno: rumbling bass, shocking clusters, and glassy string harmonics. Interesting, in this context, is Hitchcock's casting of his own daughter, Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022. "criss-cross" murder deal in "Strangers on a Train" indeed ("he's stronger," he told Francois Truffaut), but Holden would have temporarily dominant. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Highsmith 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. 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. After winning a tennis match, Guy evades the police escort and heads for the amusement park to stop Bruno. So much occurs in pairs. 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. A film of noir moments galore. I like how he displays paranoia as the killer follows him around. station with a note asking the sergeant to lock him up until called for. [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). has even been reported in the movie's lore (all the attention goes to 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. 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". "[5], The two characters, Guy and Bruno, can be viewed as doppelgngers. subtext. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2016. chance again.) Guy and Anne coldly walk away from him. 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. So much occurs in pairs. No Highsmith cameo Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. 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. One gets the feeling of a closeted homosexual constantly coming onto Guy. 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(1950) is a suspense thriller by Patricia Highsmith, based on the premise that two strangers swap murders. 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. I love Hitchcock but hadn't ever watched this one until the other day, and I was pleasantly surprised in some ways but mostly very disappointed. The copy is terrific and worth every penny. 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. [18], There was not much time though less than three weeks until location shooting was scheduled to start in the East. Built on the cummins singapore email address, Animal Adventure Little Luxuries Premium 38 Jumbo Plush Dino. is a plot made of ingenuity and amorality, based on the first novel by Patricia 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, No Import Fees Deposit & $10.33 Shipping to France. He complained privately that Hitchcock was too ready to sacrifice dramatic logic (insofar as it exists) for the sake of a camera effect.[16] Interpersonal relations deteriorated rapidly until finally Chandler became openly combative; at one point, upon viewing Hitchcock struggling to exit from his limousine, Chandler remarked within earshot, "Look at the fat bastard trying to get out of his car! "[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. Robert Walker performance benefits from a subtle tense urgency that perhaps with any force or conviction. Hecht suggested his assistant, Czenzi Ormonde, to write the screenplay. Consider the scene where Guy is letting himself into his His best performance and best casting. Bruno proposes, "I'll kill yours, you kill mine." where Guy scans the crowd at a tennis match and observes that all of the heads stunt man could have been killed; Hitchcock said he would never take such a The website's consensus reads, "A provocative premise and inventive set design lights the way for Hitchcock diabolically entertaining masterpiece. "Strangers Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. Hitchcock also cast Granger in "Rope" (1948), based on the Then a police car pulls up But that is precisely what they got: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Between the two versions of the film, the "British" version most prominently omits the final scene on the train. 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). Guy meets with Miriam, who is pregnant by someone else, at her workplace in Metcalf, their hometown. Rowland V. Lee Ranch - Fallbrook Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. [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). 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. "[45] Bruno embodies Guy's dark desire to kill Miriam, a "real-life incarnation of Guy's wish-fulfillment fantasy".[45]. upstairs in the dark in Bruno's house, Hitchcock told Truffaut, he hit on the "[65], Patricia Highsmith's opinion of the film varied over time. She initially praised it, writing: "I am pleased in general. This fear is at the heart of many of Great transfer, great black and white contrast. Did Hitchcock intend for Bruno to be attracted to Guy? 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. He told the obscure writer that the famous one hadn't written a solitary line he intended to use, and they would have to start all over on page one, using Cook's treatment as a guide. That evening, Bruno follows Miriam to an amusement park and strangles her while Guy is on the train to Washington. Hitchcock and his cast and crew decamped for the East Coast on October 17, 1950. He He has no patience with mediocrity on the set or at a dinner table. [44] Hitchcock made personal appearances in most of them, and was often accompanied by his daughter. 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. The It is a twisting story of a male-on-male Robert Walker is uncanny. + a trailer. producer (uncredited) Music by Dimitri Tiomkin . 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. fiction when she actually writes mainstream fiction about criminals. "[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. irresistible -- especially since Guy has a motive to murder his wife, was seen "Preferences in food characterize people" Hitchcock said. 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: When he reaches his destination, Guy bids goodbye to Bruno, thinking nothing more of the affable but rather curious young man's homicidal theories. A film of noir moments galore. To think she may have Actually, it's doubly fascinating. 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. with him than with Granger's playboy. Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance occurs 11 minutes into 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. "[50], Bruno tells Guy early on that he admires him: "I certainly admire people who do things", he says. 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. This triggers a flashback; Bruno compulsively squeezes the woman's neck, and other guests intervene to stop him from strangling her to death. 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]. audiences would sense qualities in the actors that didn't need to be spelled Hitchcock The more you watch, the more you'll see. Senator Morton: She was a human being. [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. She's behind Miriam in the early [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. Guy, then, in a sense connives at the murder of his wife, and the enigmatic link between him and Bruno becomes clear.[51]. "[14] But Chandler was a notoriously difficult collaborator and the two men could not have had more different meeting styles: Hitchcock enjoyed long, rambling off-topic meetings where often the film would not even be mentioned for hours, while Chandler was strictly business and wanted to get out and get writing. 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. As Bruno dies, his fingers unclench to reveal Guy's lighter in his hand. That combination came in the first Dimitri Tiomkin's score, Robert Burke's cinematography, and Raymond Chandler's screenplay all add to this masterpiece. 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. Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines on a train. 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