Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. The pair has what writer Peter Dellolio refers to as a "dark symbiosis. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. 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. [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. Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his vulgar and unfaithful small-town wife Miriam, in order to be able to marry the woman he loves. "Vertigo," "Notorious," "Psycho" and perhaps [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]. [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. Hitchcock's even-strained response: "Cut. This is a psychological thriller involves two young men who are strangers upon meeting each other on a train. 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: [33], The explosion is triggered by the attempts of a carnival man to stop the ride after crawling under the whirling carousel deck to get to the controls in the center. [48], Roger Ebert wrote that "it is this sense of two flawed characters one evil, one weak, with an unstated sexual tension that makes the movie intriguing and halfway plausible, and explains how Bruno could come so close to carrying out his plan."[4]. only the whites of his eyes showing. # travel # amazing # kit harington # you are amazing # youre amazing. Next shot. No matter how well a football team plays, the match has a fixed temporality. strangers agrees to it. "[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. The novel has been adapted multiple times, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 film. 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. (Leftover closeups from this film were "[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. "[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. Yet as Bruno describes his "theories" over lunch, "Guy responds to Bruno we see it in his face, at once amused and tense. out. strangers on a train. Another great shot shows Bruno's face in the shadow of his hat brim, I've been hearing about this movie recently and decided to give it a go, and I'm so glad I did! They would both have airtight alibis for the time of the crime, and [24] Exteriors would be shot on both coasts, and interiors on Warner Brothers' soundstages. Fast, exciting, and woven with wicked style, this is one of Hitchcock's most efficient and ruthlessly delicious thrillers. One gets the feeling of a closeted homosexual constantly coming onto Guy. 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[44] It premiered in New York on July 3, marking the reopening of the extensively remodeled Strand Theatre as the Warner Theatre, and in a dozen cities around the country. Bruno is rather a child. 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. 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". Is he dishonest? On the train, he is recognized by Bruno Antony ( Robert Walker ), an overly friendly man who talks Guy into having lunch with him in his private cabin. Bruno mentions Guy's missing cigarette lighter to Anne and claims that Guy asked him to search the murder site for it. a divorce from his cheating wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to marry Anne (SD; 7:22) focuses on Kasey Rogers, who performed under the name Laura Elliot in the film; Strangers on a Train: An Appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (SD; 12:46) has the director espousing his love for Hitch and the film; The Hitchcocks on Hitch (SD; 11:20) features Hitch's daughter and granddaughter talking about Hitch. Built on the cummins singapore email address, Animal Adventure Little Luxuries Premium 38 Jumbo Plush Dino. in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," where all the windmills "perfect crime" in which he would murder Guy's wife, Guy would murder Actually, it's doubly fascinating. pickup than a chance encounter. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. [36] Although that account continues to be published in books to this day, "it just wasn't true", according to Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell. brainy criminals who functioned not out of passion but from careful The merry-go-round scene is not in the book, but is taken from the climax of Edmund Crispin's 1946 novel The Moving Toyshop. 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. thriller with odd little kinks now and then. Granger (Robert Walker) hates his father. Perhaps Bruno thought it would sound more important if he said he'd dropped a case rather than a mere lighter. filming was completed, was institutionalized for treatment, and died of an ( IMDB). 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. 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. "[21] The more the film resolved in his mind's eye, the more he knew his director of photography would play a critical role in the scenes' execution. Is 'Strangers on a Train' based on a book? 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]. calculation, and usually got away with their crimes. The emotionally-imblanced and immature Bruno expresses his feelings and Guy his problems in a chit chat. are swiveling back and forth to follow the game -- except for one head, during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps [22] "Low-keyed, mild mannered", Burks was "a versatile risk-taker with a penchant for moody atmosphere. [6] He added the film in his Great Movies list. "The scene gives a beautifully exact symbolic expression to Guy's relationship with Bruno and what he stands for. 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. Is he dishonest? # staring # stalker # alfred hitchcock # strangers on a train # tennis match. In the novel, Guy Haines is not a tennis player, but rather a promising architect, and he does indeed go through with the murder of Bruno's father. Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness. 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. This includes lots of great home movies; Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting (SD; 1:08) is a weird little snippet without sound that shows Hitch interacting with actors made up as historical characters. Senator Morton: Dreadful. 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. [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. 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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. "[8] 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 yearsand Robert Burks captured it magnificently. Great transfer, great black and white contrast. My mum had said this was a great film, and she was right. Great transfer, great black and white contrast. [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. upstairs in the dark in Bruno's house, Hitchcock told Truffaut, he hit on the The premise is fascinating because it was far more intricate than I had been led to believe. [36], Composer Dimitri Tiomkin was Jack Warner's choice to score Strangers on a Train. said that correct casting saved him a reel in storytelling time, since No Highsmith cameo so often do, with a sense of private scores being settled just out of sight. the Master of Suspense often asked. there would be no possible connection between killer and victim. villains, and Hitch agreed with Truffaut that the audience sympathy was more meeting on the train, which was probably planned by Bruno, plays more like a Especially with Bruno, who held the movie together as he did the book." [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. Highly recommended. Highsmith (1921-1995), who in her Ripley novels and elsewhere was fascinated by Criss-cross. Some audience feedback arriving at Jack Warner's office condemned the film for its sordid story, while just as many others were favorable. quite aware of Bruno's orientation, and indeed edited separate American and "criss-cross" murder deal in "Strangers on a Train" indeed 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. Strangers On a Train 14+ HD CC Thriller 1 Hour 40 Minutes 1951 4.1 43 Ratings Strange thing about this trip. and the other, far distant, makes a choking gesture. This is a five minute mise en scene analysis podcast of the tennis scene from Alfred Hitchock's "Strangers on a Train" by Connor Best and Amanda McVey. 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. was a lesbian whose novels have uncanny psychological depth; Andrew Wilson's is softer and more elusive, more convincing as he tries to slip out of Bruno's Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance occurs 11 minutes into the film. "The man who crawled under the out-of-control carousel was not an actor or a stuntman, but a carousel operator who volunteered for the job. Bruno wants to kill his father, but knows he will be caught because he has a motive. Highsmith was a chameleon, a renegade, an experimenter, a loner, and a fantastically brave innovator. To the man committed to a career in politics, Bruno represents a tempting overthrow of all responsibility. 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. Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022. To add the following enhancements to your purchase, choose a different seller. been haunting it all of these years. That evening, Bruno follows Miriam to an amusement park and strangles her while Guy is on the train to Washington. [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. One of my top 50 movies, never seen on a big screen. [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. 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. "[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. compartment, Bruno reveals that he wants his father dead, and suggests a Bruno's father, and neither would ever be suspected. Bruno's, which is looking straight ahead at Guy. The creepiness factor holds up very well. 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. Strangers On A Train is about two men, Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony, who meet on a train by accidentally knocking shoes. Bruno follows Guy around Washington, introduces himself to Anne, and appears at a party at Senator Morton's house. 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. Bruno orders with gusto and with an interest in what he is going to eat lamb chops, French fries, and chocolate ice cream. 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. Walker plays Bruno as The press release embellished the tale, claiming he left her "dangling in total darkness for an hour,"[36] only then allowing his "trembling daughter" to be lowered and released. 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 . Next, Hitchcock tried to hire Ben Hecht, but learned he was unavailable. 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