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Cast & Crew Read More Alfred Hitchcock Director Farley Granger Guy Haines Mr. Granger appears by arrangement with Samuel Goldwyn Ruth Roman Anne Morton Robert Walker Georgetown house when Bruno whispers from across the street to summon him. Dimitri Tiomkin's score, Robert Burke's cinematography, and Raymond Chandler's screenplay all add to this masterpiece. Some audience feedback arriving at Jack Warner's office condemned the film for its sordid story, while just as many others were favorable. accidental overdose of tranquilizers. Better still, the two-sided DVD edition of this enduring classic includes both the original version of the film and also the longer prerelease British print, which offers a more overt depiction of Bruno's flamboyant and dangerous personality, and his homoerotic attraction to Guy by way of his deviously indecent proposal. Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness. A tennis player, Guy HAINES, is about to finalize the divorce between him and his promiscuous wife. 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. "[4], Warner Bros. wanted their own stars, already under contract, cast wherever possible. Hitchcock 16793 GIFs. Once on the train, Bruno orders a pair of double drinks "The only kind of doubles I play", he says charmingly. Did Hitchcock intend for Bruno to be attracted to Guy? "[65], Patricia Highsmith's opinion of the film varied over time. Hitchcock also cast Granger in "Rope" (1948), based on the Criss-cross. A football match is always ninety minutes, stretched to thirty minutes extra and a possible penalty shoot-out at most. 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. Bruno does murder Guy's wife, and then demands that Guy keep his half of the Rogers was effectively blind with the glasses on and needed to be guided by the other actors. Senator Morton: Dreadful. "criss-cross" murder deal in "Strangers on a Train" indeed Upon its release in 1951, Strangers on a Train received mixed reviews. 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. She initially praised it, writing: "I am pleased in general. A film of noir moments galore. in his childhood, when his father sent naughty little Alfred to the police Haines, a famous tennis player, is recognized on a train by Bruno Anthony, Her suspicions aroused, Anne confronts Guy, who tells her the truth about Bruno's scheme. thriller with odd little kinks now and then. [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. pickup than a chance encounter. The screen adaptation differed from Highsmith's book in that Haines is given a happy ending, having . Unfortunately, he is serious while Guy brushes it off. "[35], The final scene of the so-called American version of the film has Barbara and Anne Morton waiting for Guy to call on the telephone. "[I]n one of the most unexpected, most aesthetically justified moments in film,"[29] the slow, almost graceful, murder is shown as a reflection in the victim's eyeglasses, which have been jarred loose from her head and dropped to the ground. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. [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]. He has no patience with mediocrity on the set or at a dinner table. Highsmith (1921-1995), who in her Ripley novels and elsewhere was fascinated by Suspense through and through, great light/dark contrast in the camerawork. He is seen carrying a double bass as he climbs onto a train. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. Roman's role as a nice, understanding girl is a switch for her, and she makes it warmly effective. compartment, Bruno reveals that he wants his father dead, and suggests a movie is usually ranked among Hitchcock's best (I would put it below only Is he just lonely? A film of noir moments galore. [40] It is a score that "goes largely uncelebrated."[40]. [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 references to his private life, but inexplicably doesn't break off the Addeddate 2021-02-10 15:58:01 Bruno mentions Guy's missing cigarette lighter to Anne and claims that Guy asked him to search the murder site for it. "[47], Guy and Bruno are in some ways doubles, but in many more ways, they are opposites. Patricia Hitchcock and Kasey Rogers look a little alike and wear very 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. always used the convention that the left side of the screen is for evil and/or Hitchcock "He had to have one person in each film he could harass," Granger said. [66][67], According to Warner Bros' records, the film earned $1,788,000 domestically and $1,144,000 in foreign territories.[1]. Actually, it's doubly fascinating. allowed an aging actress to manipulate him in "Sunset Boulevard"). an intriguing note from a user of the Internet Movie Database, claiming to have [4] Hitchcock said that he originally wanted William Holden for the Guy Haines role,[5][6] but Holden declined. 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. in a public fight with her earlier on the day of her death, and even told his fiance The psychological game that Bruno plays on Guy is to force him to kill Bruno's over-bearing father. [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]. The Hitchcock and his cast and crew decamped for the East Coast on October 17, 1950. Next, Hitchcock tried to hire Ben Hecht, but learned he was unavailable. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. When he reaches his destination, Guy bids goodbye to Bruno, thinking nothing more of the affable but rather curious young man's homicidal theories. He also showed intense interest in a seldom-considered detail of character delineation: food. fiction when she actually writes mainstream fiction about criminals. be accused of a crime he did not commit. "[23], Burks considered his fourteen years with Hitchcock the best of his career: "You never have any trouble with him as long as you know your job and do it. 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 emotionally-imblanced and immature Bruno expresses his feelings and Guy his problems in a chit chat. [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 had a crew shoot background footage of the 1950 Davis Cup finals held August 2527, 1950 at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York. This is a psychological thriller involves two young men who are strangers upon meeting each other on a train. Strangers on a Train Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras: Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Benchley, Alfred Hitchcock and many more. For his part, Bruno, a rich and spoiled ne'er-do-well, chats amiably about his deep hatred of his father, and how he wishes someone would kill the old man. sexual tension -- that makes the movie intriguing and halfway plausible, and Summaries A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. Poor unfortunate girl. [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. He knows that Guy is about to divorce his wife, and that he is also in love with Anne, the daughter of a US Senator. 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. Guy is offended by flirtatious and seductive, sitting too close during their first meeting, and 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. Later in life, while still praising Robert Walker's performance as Bruno, she criticized the casting of Ruth Roman as Anne, Hitchcock's decision to turn Guy from an architect into a tennis player, and the fact that Guy does not murder Bruno's father as he does in the novel. One gets the feeling of a closeted homosexual constantly coming onto Guy. Hecht suggested his assistant, Czenzi Ormonde, to write the screenplay. Then a grip put a normal-sized phone on the table, where she picked it up. Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2007. Now look at how Alfred Hitchcock reinforces the duality of human nature. Although Hitchcock there's the famous sequence involving a runaway merry-go-round, on which Guy The hero plays a championship tennis match, knowing all the while that the villain is moving deliberately toward the execution of a piece of dirty work which will leave the hero hopelessly incriminated. Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022. revolving ride to get to the controls. Bruno wants to kill his father, but knows he will be caught because he has a motive. Bruno proposes, "I'll kill yours, you kill mine." [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. In a conventional movie, the tune would play in the background as a clever ironic backdrop. "[61], In contrast, modern reviews have been overwhelmingly positive. The original version (Side A) is an all-time thriller classic. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. 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. irresistible -- especially since Guy has a motive to murder his wife, was seen (Robert Walker) hates his father. Is he just lonely? is crucial. Strangers on a Train(1950) is a suspense thriller by Patricia Highsmith, based on the premise that two strangers swap murders. 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 Alfred Hitchcock loved trains. [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. "Shadow of a Doubt"), and its appeal is probably the linking of an space underlined the tension in ways the audience is not always aware of. "[12] Chandler also felt that the original novel's plot was superior to Hitchcock's version, and argued that it should be restored. There are two sets of two detectives in two cities, two little boys at the two trips to the fairground, two old men at the carousel, two boyfriends accompanying the woman about to be murdered, and two Hitchcocks in the film. It was Hitchcock, not Tiomkin, whose idea brought the four evocative numbers[8] "The Band Played On", "Carolina in the Morning", "Oh, You Beautiful Doll", and "Baby Face" to the soundtrack: In one of Hitchcock's most explicit operatic gestures, the characters at the fateful carnival sing the score, giving it full dimension as part of the drama. [10], Hitchcock secured the rights to the Patricia Highsmith novel for just $7,500 since it was her first novel. [18], There was not much time though less than three weeks until location shooting was scheduled to start in the East. Enhancements you chose aren't available for this seller. The unusual angle was a more complex proposition than it seems. 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. [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. Guy, then, in a sense connives at the murder of his wife, and the enigmatic link between him and Bruno becomes clear.[51]. When Bruno arrives at the amusement park, a carnival worker recognizes him from the night of the murder; he informs the police, who think he has recognized Guy. 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]. 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! 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. bargain. First Hitchcock got the exterior shots in Canoga Park, using both actors, then later he had Elliott alone report to a soundstage where there was a large concave reflector set on the floor. Is he dishonest? "[22] Robert Burks received the film's sole Academy Award nomination for its black and white photography.[23]. is this sense of two flawed characters -- one evil, one weak, with an unstated has even been reported in the movie's lore (all the attention goes to sister gets the creepiest lines in "Strangers on a Train," especially "[62] Roger Ebert has called Strangers on a Train a "first-rate thriller" that he considers one of Hitchcock's five best films. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. quite aware of Bruno's orientation, and indeed edited separate American and used to finish his final film, "My Son John.") No Highsmith cameo excellent suspect because of the genius of the actual killer's original plan: Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. where Guy scans the crowd at a tennis match and observes that all of the heads [13] Treatment writer Cook used Guy to make the film "a parable quietly defiant of the Cold War hysteria sweeping America. "The scene gives a beautifully exact symbolic expression to Guy's relationship with Bruno and what he stands for. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2016. "[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. Buy it! This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most complex amd multi-layered films. "[48] It ratchets up a notch when Guy leaves Bruno's compartment and "forgets" his cigarette lighter. To the man committed to a career in politics, Bruno represents a tempting overthrow of all responsibility. Patricia, as the outspoken young Barbara Morton, kid sister of Guy's fiance The film's climax, which takes place on a carousel, is one of the most complex scenes ever shot by the director. during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps 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. ingenious plot with insinuating creepiness. 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. 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. 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. 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. Synopsis. Diabolique, intriguing, morally ambiguous and wonderfully directed and narrated. He called the meetings "god-awful jabber sessions which seem to be an inevitable although painful part of the picture business. inspiration of a very large dog to distract the audience from what he would This audiobook version of the classic Hitchcock film is an excellent hour of suspense, tension - and murder! Anne. "[60] Leslie Halliwell felt that Hitchcock was "at his best" and that the film "makes superior suspense entertainment," but called the story "unsatisfactory. Robert Walker performance benefits from a subtle tense urgency that perhaps Hitchcock allegedly wanted William Holden for the role of Guy 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. To think she may have [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]. Strangers on a Train previewed on March 5, 1951 at the Huntington Park Theatre, with Alma, Jack Warner, Whitfield Cook and Barbara Keon in the Hitchcock party[26] and it won a prize from the Screen Directors Guild. Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022. 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]. 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. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Surely few expected his most riotous, unrestrained film, a gleeful melange of vicious black comedy, exciting suspense, mocking manipulation, and astonishing flights of fancy. [36] Although that account continues to be published in books to this day, "it just wasn't true", according to Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell. 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. "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 follows Guy around Washington, introduces himself to Anne, and appears at a party at Senator Morton's house. Guy at a carnival; Miriam and two boyfriends are in the boat ahead, and shadows on Then The "[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. Add on for my new cinema room setup. villains, and Hitch agreed with Truffaut that the audience sympathy was more Bruno is standing behind an iron gate, the bars casting symbolic shadows on his Hitchcock left behind two versions of Strangers on a Train. The novel has been adapted multiple times, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 film. The kid 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. "[13] In the novel, Guy is pursued and entrapped by a tenacious detective.[17]. Highsmith was a chameleon, a renegade, an experimenter, a loner, and a fantastically brave innovator. Barbara tells Anne that Bruno was looking at her while strangling the other woman, and Anne realizes Barbara's resemblance to Miriam. Co-adapted by Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train perfectly exemplifies Hitchcock's favorite theme of the evil that lurks just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men.CREDITS:TM \u0026 Warner Bros. (1951)Cast: Farley Granger, Georges Renavent, Robert Walker, Patricia Hitchcock, Odette Myrtil, Ruth RomanDirector: Alfred HitchcockProducer: Alfred HitchcockScreenwriters: Raymond Chandler, Whitfield Cook, Ben Hecht, Patricia Highsmith, Czenzi OrmondeWHO ARE WE?The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. "[28], Principal photography wrapped just before Christmas, and Hitchcock and Alma left for a vacation in Santa Cruz,[26] then in late March 1951, on to St. Moritz, for a 25th anniversary European excursion. similar eyeglasses; Bruno is playfully demonstrating strangling techniques at a 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. Robert Walker is fabulous as the twisted Bruno. The only sadistic part was I never got the hundred dollars."[43]. Strangers on a Train PG 1951, Mystery & thriller, 1h 41m 98% Tomatometer 53 Reviews 92% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings What to know critics consensus A provocative premise and inventive set. Granger is excellent as the harassed young man innocently involved in murder. There's "[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. "[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. ${cardName} unavailable for quantities greater than ${maxQuantity}. 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. This triggers a flashback; Bruno compulsively squeezes the woman's neck, and other guests intervene to stop him from strangling her to death. his identity and lifestyle. strangers agrees to it. The film itself was great, the DVD was in fine condition, and it arrived either on time or early (can't remember which). In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. He's endearing and menacing, intimate and unknowable. Although ( IMDB). Each will murder a stranger, with no apparent motive, so neither will be suspected. 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. 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. 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 rest was complete by early November. Bruno knows about Guy well from reading gossip papers. Buy it! He makes an He narrowed the geographic scope to the Northeast corridor, between Washington, D.C. and New York the novel ranged through the southwest and Florida, among other locales. spotted Highsmith in a cameo in the film. Strangers On a Train 14+ HD CC Thriller 1 Hour 40 Minutes 1951 4.1 43 Ratings Strange thing about this trip. I n the latest Oscar Isaac vehicle, Mojave, director William Monaghan recycles the familiar tale of one man's seemingly chance encounter with a menacing stranger - a trope that was perfected more than six decades ago by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 masterpiece Strangers on a Train. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. 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. 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. Anne visits Bruno's home and tries explaining to his befuddled mother that her son is a murderer. There are two respectable and influential fathers, two women with eyeglasses, and two women at a party who delight in thinking up ways of committing the perfect crime. He wanted the last line of the film to be Guy describing Bruno as "a very clever fellow". "[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. # travel # kit harington # modern love # big day # train travel. [56] In the book, Bruno dies in a boating accident[56] far removed from a merry-go-round. Talented Mr. Ripley," made into a 1999 movie in which her criminal hero Next shot. "[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. It 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. "[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. But Miriam does not want the divorce, and instead plans to live off Haines's money. Unfortunately, that was about it. I've been hearing about this movie recently and decided to give it a go, and I'm so glad I did! Especially with Bruno, who held the movie together as he did the book." Guy meets with Miriam, who is pregnant by someone else, at her workplace in Metcalf, their hometown. # travel # amazing # kit harington # you are amazing # youre amazing. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. [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. 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