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It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with shrieking excitement!
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
CinemaSerf
Aug 22, 2024 · via TMDB
Tennis pro "Haines" (Farley Granger) is quietly travelling in the club car of a train when his neighbour "Bruno" (Robert Walker) strikes up a conversation. It all seems innocuous enough, the former man is an accomplished player and it seems to him that this is a fan, of sorts, who just wants some company as he drowns his journey in Scotch. What quickly becomes clear from this chat is that both have people in their lives they'd rather be without. "Haines" is married to "Miriam" (Kasey Rogers) but would far sooner be married to senator's daughter "Anne" (Ruth Roman) whilst "Bruno" desperately wants shot of his overbearing father (Jonathan Hale). How about these two complete strangers carry out a cunningly planned murder each that will solve the other's problem? The athlete is having none of this, but when "Bruno" takes matters into his own hands a bit of menacing blackmail rears it's ugly head before the suspicious police start sniffing around and "Haines" finds himself in quite a spot. This is one of Raymond Chandler's better structured stories with quite an intricate series of layers to it - each more perilous for the hapless, lovestruck and out of his depth "Haines". There develops a palpable chemistry between the on-form Walker and Granger who both manage to keep this story compelling as director Alfred Hitchcock turns the screws gently but firmly on both of these characters. It all comes to an head in a fairground where the dazzling lights, highly pitched music and accumulating sense of panic complete a tautly presented and powerfully scored (by Dimitri Tiomkin) drama that looks at human vice, betrayal and temerity. Trains always provide well as conduits for crime thrillers, and with strong, if sparing, support from the likes of Marion Lorne, Leo G. Carroll, Hitch's own daughter Patricia as the meddling "Barbara" and a short cameo from Norma Varden (before she discovered large, ugly, hats) to add some richness - and diversion - to the machinations, then it might just make you very wary of striking up any conversation with any stranger ever again!
CharlesTheBold
Mar 12, 2017 · via TMDB
The "strangers on a train" are Guy, a successful athlete in an unhappy marriage, and Bruno, an amoral playboy. Bruno suggests a perfect crime whereby Guy can get rid of his wife without being suspected, and he convinces himself that Guy has agreed to it. Bruno is obviously evil, but what about Guy? Is he is respectable as he claims? Is his wife that bad, or is Guy really a social climber who wants to be rid of his unfashionable spouse in order to acquire a trophy wife? Does he send mix signals to Bruno because he really wants Bruno's plot to succeed? The notion of hidden, shadowy evil is what gives this thriller its power.
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Farley Granger
Guy Haines
Ruth Roman
Anne Morton
Robert Walker
Bruno Antony
Leo G. Carroll
Senator Morton
Patricia Hitchcock
Barbara Morton
Kasey Rogers
Miriam Haines
Marion Lorne
Mrs. Antony
Jonathan Hale
Mr. Antony
Howard St. John
Captain Turley
John Brown
Prof. Collins
Norma Varden
Mrs. Cunningham
Robert Gist
Leslie Hennessey
Brooks Benedict
Tennis Umpire (uncredited)
John Doucette
Detective Hammond (uncredited)
Harry Hines
Man Under Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock
Man Boarding Train Carrying Double Bass (uncredited)
Murray Alper
Boatman (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Tennis Judge (uncredited)
Joe Brooks
Carnival Patron (uncredited)
Leonard Carey
Anthony's Butler (uncredited)
John Daheim
Detective at Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Party Guest (uncredited)
Herbert Evans
Party Guest (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Party Guest (uncredited)
Tommy Farrell
Miriam's Boyfriend (uncredited)
Sam Flint
Train Passenger Requesting Light (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
Lieutenant Campbell (uncredited)
Al Hill
Carnival Game Proprietor (uncredited)
Edna Holland
Mrs. Joyce (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Tennis Match Spectator / Carnival Attendee (uncredited)
Mike Lally
Detective at Carnival (uncredited)
George Magrill
Policeman at Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
David McMahon
Bystander at Drain (uncredited)
Charles Meredith
Judge Donahue (uncredited)
Ralph Moody
Seedy Man at Carnival (uncredited)
Odette Myrtil
Madame Darville (uncredited)
Richard Neill
Party Guest (uncredited)
Barry Norton
Tennis Match Spectator (uncredited)
Spec O'Donnell
Carnival Patron (uncredited)
Paul Panzer
Bystander at Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
Minna Phillips
Dowager (uncredited)
Georges Renavent
Monsieur Darville (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgway
Bystander at Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)
Charles Sherlock
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Joe Warfield
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Dick Wessel
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Robert B. Williams
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