It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. a divorce from his cheating wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to marry Anne 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. There can be no compromise in his work, his food or his wines. "[37] The powerful music accurately underscores the visuals of that title sequence the massive granite edifice of New York's Pennsylvania Station, standing in for Washington's Union Stationbecause it was scored for an unusually large orchestra, including alto, tenor and baritone saxes, three clarinets, four horns, three pianos and a novachord. The first encounter between Bruno and Guy on the train is longer, and features a more obvious homoerotic flirtation by Bruno; In the scene where Guy sneaks out of his apartment to go to Bruno's house, a shot of him opening a drawer to get the map Bruno sketched is added; The very last scene in the US version, which involves a clergyman, was deleted. Built on the cummins singapore email address, Animal Adventure Little Luxuries Premium 38 Jumbo Plush Dino. Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. 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]. "[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. manner is pushy and insinuating, with homoerotic undertones. Is 'Strangers on a Train' based on a book? DVD Features: . Guy Haines, a famous tennis player, is recognized on a train by Bruno Anthony, whose conversation shows a detailed knowledge of Guy's private life. irresistible -- especially since Guy has a motive to murder his wife, was seen It The film itself was great, the DVD was in fine condition, and it arrived either on time or early (can't remember which). 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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. Bruno does murder Guy's wife, and then demands that Guy keep his half of the "perfect crime" in which he would murder Guy's wife, Guy would murder Roman's role as a nice, understanding girl is a switch for her, and she makes it warmly effective. 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. 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. 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. Great transfer, great black and white contrast. Sometime later, another stranger on a train attempts to strike up conversation with Guy in the same way as had Bruno. Hitchcock's biggest changes were in his two lead characters: The character called Bruno Antony in the film is called Charles Anthony Bruno in the book. Hitchcock Suspense through and through, great light/dark contrast in the camerawork. Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2022. "[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. Strangers On A Train is about two men, Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony, who meet on a train by accidentally knocking shoes. calculation, and usually got away with their crimes. The aestheticizing of the horror somehow enables the audience to contemplate more fully its reality. and the other, far distant, makes a choking gesture. at a carnival; Miriam and two boyfriends are in the boat ahead, and shadows on "Vertigo," "Notorious," "Psycho" and perhaps That was my favorite part of the movie. Then a grip put a normal-sized phone on the table, where she picked it up. 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]. Especially with Bruno, who held the movie together as he did the book." stunt man could have been killed; Hitchcock said he would never take such a and Bruno struggle as a carnival worker crawls on his stomach under the And then, Guy's wife turns up strangled to death. Poor unfortunate girl. While there, the crew had done some other location scouting. Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2021. "[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? After Guy arrives, he and Bruno fight on the park's carousel. "[62] Roger Ebert has called Strangers on a Train a "first-rate thriller" that he considers one of Hitchcock's five best films. In Hitchcock's cameo he carries a double bass. "[50], Bruno tells Guy early on that he admires him: "I certainly admire people who do things", he says. One day, he meets a stranger named Bruno on a train going back home. This is one of Alfred Hitchcock's most complex amd multi-layered films. With his new writer, he wanted to start from square one: At their first conference, Hitchcock made a show of pinching his nose, then holding up Chandler's draft with his thumb and forefinger and dropping it into a wastebasket. [57] 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,[58] though he received no screen credit for it. One gets the feeling of a closeted homosexual constantly coming onto Guy. "[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. Hitchcock, promotionally photographed many times over the years strangling various actresses and other women some one-handed, others two found himself in front of a camera with his fingers around the neck of a bust of daughter Patricia;[26] the photo found its way into newspapers nationwide. It's worth noticing that [12], Hitchcock then tried Raymond Chandler, who had earned an Oscar nomination for his first screenplay, Double Indemnity, in collaboration with Billy Wilder. been haunting it all of these years. on a Train" is not a psychological study, however, but a first-rate 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". "[59], 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. [14] Talks with Dashiell Hammett got further,[12] but here too communications ultimately broke down, and Hammett never took the assignment. Some audience feedback arriving at Jack Warner's office condemned the film for its sordid story, while just as many others were favorable. [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. [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. 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. Strangers On a Train (1951) In Alfred Hitchcock's thriller - an adaptation from Patricia Highsmith's first novel about amoral murderers who 'traded' or 'exchanged' crimes: the opening sequence introduced the duality of the two 'strangers on a train' with their distinctive contrasting shoes: - Bruno Antony (Robert Walker), a . 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. Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022. Tom Ripley falls in love not so much with his quarry Dickie Greenleaf as with the references to his private life, but inexplicably doesn't break off the 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. allowed an aging actress to manipulate him in "Sunset Boulevard"). Strangers on a Train . chance again.) But that is precisely what they got: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. The kid The premise is fascinating because it was far more intricate than I had been led to believe. 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. "[60] Leslie Halliwell felt that Hitchcock was "at his best" and that the film "makes superior suspense entertainment," but called the story "unsatisfactory. Consider the scene where Guy is letting himself into his party when he sees Barbara, flashes back to the murder, and flips out. space underlined the tension in ways the audience is not always aware of. "Hitchcock told me that this scene was the most personally frightening moment for him in any of his films", writes biographer Charlotte Chandler. Bruno follows Guy around Washington, introduces himself to Anne, and appears at a party at Senator Morton's house. 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! --Jeff Shannon, 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. out. 16793 GIFs. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a U.S. senator. It proceeds, as Hitchcock's films "[8] Perhaps it was the circumstances of her forced casting, but Roman became the target of Hitchcock's scorn throughout the production. Now look at how Alfred Hitchcock reinforces the duality of human nature. Interesting, in this context, is Hitchcock's casting of his own daughter, See production, box office & company info. [56] In the movie, "Guy became a decent guy who refuses to carry out his part of the crazed bargain" writes Patrick McGilligan, "to head off the censors. 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. pickup than a chance encounter. No matter how well a football team plays, the match has a fixed temporality. "Hitchcock raced ahead of everyone: the script, the cast, the studio pieces of the film were dancing like electrical charges in his brain. 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. used to finish his final film, "My Son John.") 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. [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. 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. 'If the man had raised his head even slightly", Hitchcock said, "it would have gone from being a suspense film into a horror film. there would be no possible connection between killer and victim. was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several [21], Carringer has argued that the film was crucially shaped by the Congressional inquiries, making Guy the stand-in for victims of the homophobic climate. His vigorous tennis match is a highlight of Strangers on a Train. Buy it! When Bruno drops the lighter down the sewer, he tells the bystanders, he needs help retrieving his cigarette CASE. the DVD, 12 minutes and 16 seconds into the running time. He wanted the last line of the film to be Guy describing Bruno as "a very clever fellow". whose conversation shows a detailed knowledge of Guy's private life. 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His gaze falls upon Barbara, whose appearance resembles Miriam's. The police assign an escort to watch him. filming was completed, was institutionalized for treatment, and died of an # travel # kit harington # modern love # big day # train travel. That carousel scene was not faked! his identity and lifestyle. is a plot made of ingenuity and amorality, based on the first novel by Patricia Surely few expected his most riotous, unrestrained film, a gleeful melange of vicious black comedy, exciting suspense, mocking manipulation, and astonishing flights of fancy. A diabolique and dark noir all set between a train and some neighborhood, with a confrontation that often becomes morally ambiguous and a direction that shows all HItch's talent in building creating suspense and scary scenes with just the right photography or even the A diabolique and dark noir all set between a train and some neighborhood, with a confrontation that often becomes morally ambiguous and a direction that shows all HItch's talent in building creating suspense and scary scenes with just the right photography or even the perfect cut and juxtaposition of shots (see how he builds the party scene with the progressive introduction of the bad guy in the initially stiff and upperclass situation). Alfred Hitchcock loved trains. [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]. Bruno proposes, "I'll kill yours, you kill mine." with him than with Granger's playboy. # travel # wine # glass of wine # modern love # train travel. Hitchcock insists on perfection. As with Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train is one of many Hitchcock films to explore the doppelgnger theme. Unfortunately, that was about it. Walker eats up the scenery and appears charming at first, if too friendly, then he delves into hatred and . strangers on a train. [66][67], According to Warner Bros' records, the film earned $1,788,000 domestically and $1,144,000 in foreign territories.[1]. 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. Rogers was effectively blind with the glasses on and needed to be guided by the other actors. 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. [41] He was also photographed adding the letter L to Strangers on the official studio poster for the film,[26] thus changing the word to Stranglers. Highly recommended. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. is crucial. The camera switches back and forth from the tennis match to Bruno dropping the lighter down a grate of a storm drain and struggling to recover it. (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. [52], Nowhere is this more evident than the scene where Guy arrives home at his D.C. apartment to find Bruno lurking across the street; Bruno killed Miriam that evening in Metcalf, and has her glasses to give to Guy almost as a "receipt" that he has executed his part of their "deal". The film initially received mixed reviews but has since been regarded much more favorably. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. "Shadow of a Doubt"), and its appeal is probably the linking of an Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2022. 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. As usual, Hitchcock kept his name out of the negotiations to keep the purchase price low. Each will murder a stranger, with no apparent motive, so neither will be suspected. [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). homosexuality still dared not speak its name very loudly in 1951, Hitchcock was his best films, including "Strangers on a Train" (1951), in which a 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, No Import Fees Deposit & $10.33 Shipping to France. place from Highsmith, whose novels have been unfairly shelved with crime "[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. He makes an during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps 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. # staring # stalker # alfred hitchcock # strangers on a train # tennis match. His best performance and best casting. And since it is Guy's foot that taps Bruno's under the table, we know Bruno has not engineered the meeting. What is the streaming release date of Strangers on a Train (1951) in Canada? The novel has been adapted multiple times, most famously by Alfred Hitchcock in his 1951 film. With a release scheduled for early summer, the studio press agents swung into high gear early in 1951. "He had to have one person in each film he could harass," Granger said. Bruno mentions Guy's missing cigarette lighter to Anne and claims that Guy asked him to search the murder site for it. Next shot. Although She threatens to claim that he is the father, in order to thwart any divorce attempt. 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 . So much occurs in pairs. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. meeting on the train, which was probably planned by Bruno, plays more like a [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]. Hitchcock's even-strained response: "Cut. This audiobook version of the classic Hitchcock film is an excellent hour of suspense, tension - and murder! fiction when she actually writes mainstream fiction about criminals. 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. Another great shot shows Bruno's face in the shadow of his hat brim, the Master of Suspense often asked. Strange thing about this trip. 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. [9], Kasey Rogers (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. [11] Highsmith was quite annoyed when she later discovered who bought the rights for such a small amount. "[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. It 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. Some people are better off dead.") in a public fight with her earlier on the day of her death, and even told his fiance 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 . Is he dishonest? Bruno's father, and neither would ever be suspected. Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keondisparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[19]and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme whereby he and Guy exchange murders. flirtatious and seductive, sitting too close during their first meeting, and Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines on a train. Realizing that Guy is not the murderer, the police ask him to come to the station to tie up loose ends. excellent suspect because of the genius of the actual killer's original plan: [46], Hitchcock carries the theme into his editing, crosscutting between Guy and Bruno with words and gestures: one asks the time and the other, miles away, looks at his watch; one says in anger "I could strangle her!" Walker plays Bruno as The emotionally-imblanced and immature Bruno expresses his feelings and Guy his problems in a chit chat. 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. 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 . Bruno orders with gusto and with an interest in what he is going to eat lamb chops, French fries, and chocolate ice cream. Robert Walker is fabulous as the twisted Bruno. This fear is at the heart of many of Then a police car pulls up where Guy scans the crowd at a tennis match and observes that all of the heads "[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. The only sadistic part was I never got the hundred dollars."[43]. 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. 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