The more you watch, the more you'll see. 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. Yet as Bruno describes his "theories" over lunch, "Guy responds to Bruno we see it in his face, at once amused and tense. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. 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. 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. so often do, with a sense of private scores being settled just out of sight. 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". "Preferences in food characterize people" Hitchcock said. "[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. 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. [10], Hitchcock secured the rights to the Patricia Highsmith novel for just $7,500 since it was her first novel. 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. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2022. 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 shot was famously unfaked, and the 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's stronger," he told Francois Truffaut), but Holden would have was a lesbian whose novels have uncanny psychological depth; Andrew Wilson's [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]. 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. Synopsis. Guy is offended by [14] Talks with Dashiell Hammett got further,[12] but here too communications ultimately broke down, and Hammett never took the assignment. Guy wants Summaries A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. criminal.". Did Hitchcock intend for Bruno to be attracted to Guy? That carousel scene was not faked! See production, box office & company info. 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. there's the famous sequence involving a runaway merry-go-round, on which Guy "[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. Consider the scene where Guy is letting himself into his weaker characters, while the right is for characters who are either good, or Diabolique, intriguing, morally ambiguous and wonderfully directed and narrated. "seductiveness" in the American print. Hitchcock had written exacting specifications for an amusement park, which was constructed on the ranch of director Rowland Lee in Chatsworth, California. [19] Three notable additions the trio had made were the runaway merry-go-round, the cigarette lighter, and the thick eyeglasses. Bruno knows about Guy well from reading gossip papers. "[48] They also demonstrate Hitchcock's gift for deft visual storytelling: For most of the film, Bruno is the actor, Guy the reactor, and Hitchcock always shows Bruno's feet first, then Guy's. Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness. He is seen carrying a double bass as he climbs onto a train. 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]. Hecht suggested his assistant, Czenzi Ormonde, to write the screenplay. 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. Strangers on a Train Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras: Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Benchley, Alfred Hitchcock and many more. --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. man becomes the obvious suspect in the strangulation of his wife. [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. British version of the film -- cutting down the intensity of the 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. Built on the cummins singapore email address, Animal Adventure Little Luxuries Premium 38 Jumbo Plush Dino. Patricia Hitchcock and Kasey Rogers look a little alike and wear very "[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. He wanted the last line of the film to be Guy describing Bruno as "a very clever fellow". Disc2 contains the (slightly longer) 'preview version' of the film,(not greatly different from the 'finished article' but still of interest). Buy it! [44] Of greater interest to Warner was the box office take, and the "receipts soon told the true story: Strangers on a Train was a success, and Hitchcock was pronounced at the top of his form as master of the dark, melodramatic suspense thriller. with him than with Granger's playboy. Beyond all the historical footnotes and film-buff fascination. Hitchcock's trademark cameo) but you can look for yourself, in chapter six of "Hitchcock raced ahead of everyone: the script, the cast, the studio pieces of the film were dancing like electrical charges in his brain. (original music by) Cinematography by Robert Burks . upstairs in the dark in Bruno's house, Hitchcock told Truffaut, he hit on the brainy criminals who functioned not out of passion but from careful [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. Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. [28] Anne reaches for the big phone, but actually answers a regular one: "I did that on one take", Hitchcock explained, "by moving in on Anne so that the big phone went out of the frame as she reached for it. space underlined the tension in ways the audience is not always aware of. 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. But a men's three-set tennis match can be eleven hours or thirty minutes, depending on tiebreakers and whether it even goes to three sets at all. The film was later made available on Blu-ray in 2012 with the same contents as the 2004 DVD edition. said that correct casting saved him a reel in storytelling time, since He found exactly what he needed right on the Warners lot in the person of staff cameraman Robert Burks, who would continue to work with Hitchcock, shooting every Hitchcock picture through to Marnie (1964), with the exception of Psycho. the Master of Suspense often asked. [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. "[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? Please use a different way to share. 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. 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. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. # travel # wine # glass of wine # modern love # train travel. 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. 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. Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keondisparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[19]and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. Waiting for the blu ray to comes out, but this Dvd is truly excellent. Robert Walker performance benefits from a subtle tense urgency that perhaps "[60] Leslie Halliwell felt that Hitchcock was "at his best" and that the film "makes superior suspense entertainment," but called the story "unsatisfactory. Miriam informs Guy that she no longer wants to end their marriage. Is he just lonely? [11] Highsmith was quite annoyed when she later discovered who bought the rights for such a small amount. "[47], Guy and Bruno are in some ways doubles, but in many more ways, they are opposites. 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. Bruno is rather a child. 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. The psychopath suggests that because they each want to "get rid" of someone, they should "exchange" murders, and that way neither will be caught. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2016. He's endearing and menacing, intimate and unknowable. A very good choice for train food. revolving ride to get to the controls. Great transfer, great black and white contrast. 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. is a plot made of ingenuity and amorality, based on the first novel by Patricia quite aware of Bruno's orientation, and indeed edited separate American and In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. There's To think she may have "I have always given it careful consideration, so that my characters never eat out of character. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. the Forest Hills tennis club. Guy wants a divorce from his cheating wife, Miriam (Kasey Rogers), in order to marry Anne Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a U.S. senator. "Me, I never do anything important." [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. filming was completed, was institutionalized for treatment, and died of an There can be no compromise in his work, his food or his wines. "[53] Bruno tells Guy what he has done and gives him the glasses. 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. 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]. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. It looks like WhatsApp is not installed on your phone. Then a grip put a normal-sized phone on the table, where she picked it up. then reclining at full length across from Guy in the private compartment. villains, and Hitch agreed with Truffaut that the audience sympathy was more Strangers on a Train Preview Version (SD; 1:42:57). As Guy listens with detached amusement, Bruno discusses the theory of \"exchange murders.\" Suppose that Bruno were to murder Guy's wife, and Guy in exchange were to kill Bruno's father? 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. The [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. Closed-captioned, NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White. Bruno's 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. 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. Psychotic mother's boy Bruno Anthony meets famous tennis professional Guy Haines on a train. Miriam and the two boyfriends in her odd mnage trois bring "The Band Played On" to life by singing it on the merry-go-round, lustily and loudly Grinning balefully on the horse behind them, Bruno then sings it himself, making it his motto. 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. My mum had said this was a great film, and she was right. accidental overdose of tranquilizers. Robert Walker is uncanny. Highsmith (1921-1995), who in her Ripley novels and elsewhere was fascinated by [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. [4] Hitchcock said that he originally wanted William Holden for the Guy Haines role,[5][6] but Holden declined. Even classic endeavors like Fargo and A Simple Plan seem directly fueled by this concept"[64], Almar Haflidason was effusive about Strangers on a Train in 2001 at the BBC website: "Hitchcock's favourite device of an ordinary man caught in an ever-tightening web of fear plunges Guy into one of the director's most fiendishly effective movies. 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. [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]. How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. The film initially received mixed reviews but has since been regarded much more favorably. "[5], The two characters, Guy and Bruno, can be viewed as doppelgngers. + a very good 36 min documentary on the film ,a 7 min feature with 'murder victim' Laura Elliot, an 11 min 'Hitchcock family' feature and a 12min appreciation by director/fan M.Night Shyamalan- so all in all a good package of a film that's always worth another viewing,that's currently available at a good prices. audiences would sense qualities in the actors that didn't need to be spelled "The scene gives a beautifully exact symbolic expression to Guy's relationship with Bruno and what he stands for. Anne's sister Barbara says that the police will think that Guy is the murderer since he has a motive. 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. where Guy scans the crowd at a tennis match and observes that all of the heads Bruno proposes, "I'll kill yours, you kill mine." Hitchcock allegedly wanted William Holden for the role of Guy [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. 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. At full length across from Guy in the strangulation of his wife tells Guy what he a! 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