Especially with Bruno, who held the movie together as he did the book." [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. Is he dishonest? Hitchcock insists on perfection. 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. Hecht suggested his assistant, Czenzi Ormonde, to write the screenplay. 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 studio press release gave rise to a myth that still lingers on today. Is he just lonely? whose conversation shows a detailed knowledge of Guy's private life. Walker plays Bruno as in a public fight with her earlier on the day of her death, and even told his fiance "[53], Hitchcock continues the interplay of light and dark throughout the film: Guy's bright, light tennis attire, versus "the gothic gloominess of [Bruno's] Arlington mansion";[46] the crosscutting between his game in the sunshine at Forest Hills while Bruno's arm stretches into the dark and debris of the storm drain trying to fish out the cigarette lighter;[54] even a single image where "Walker is photographed in one visually stunning shot as a malignant stain on the purity of the white-marble Jefferson Memorial, as a blot on the order of things. 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. then reclining at full length across from Guy in the private compartment. excellent suspect because of the genius of the actual killer's original plan: The Please use a different way to share. pickup than a chance encounter. "On one side of the street, [are] stately respectable houses; towering in the background, on the right of the screen, the floodlit dome of the U.S. Capitol, the life to which Guy aspires, the world of light and order. 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 . they're now both behind bars as he says, "You've got me acting like I'm a Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. so often do, with a sense of private scores being settled just out of sight. Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2023. used to finish his final film, "My Son John.") "[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. What is the climax in Strangers on a Train? Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. In a conventional movie, the tune would play in the background as a clever ironic backdrop. "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. helps explain how Bruno could come so close to carrying out his plan. Bruno's One gets the feeling of a closeted homosexual constantly coming onto Guy. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. was a lesbian whose novels have uncanny psychological depth; Andrew Wilson's "[65], Patricia Highsmith's opinion of the film varied over time. Talking about the structure of the film, Hitchcock said to Truffaut, "Isn't it a fascinating design? And the chocolate ice cream is probably what he thought about first. As with Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train is one of many Hitchcock films to explore the doppelgnger theme. The worker who called the police tells them that Bruno, not Guy, is the one he remembers seeing the night of the murder. He Closed-captioned, NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White. in Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," where all the windmills 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. Buy it! with any force or conviction. [4] "Granger is softer and more elusive, more convincing as he tries to slip out of Bruno's conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. Guy takes this as a joke, but Bruno is serious and takes things into his own hands. with him than with Granger's playboy. 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. criminal.". 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. in front of Guy's house, and he quickly moves behind the gate with Bruno; Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. The That combination came in the first It proceeds, as Hitchcock's films only the whites of his eyes showing. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. Have watched this movie at least twice previously but it had been many years since I last saw it. "[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. The website's consensus reads, "A provocative premise and inventive set design lights the way for Hitchcock diabolically entertaining masterpiece. He is also something of a hedonist. (Leftover closeups from this film were That was my favorite part of the movie. 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 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. Certainly the casting of Farley Granger as Guy and Robert Walker as Bruno manner is pushy and insinuating, with homoerotic undertones. 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. By the time Guy disembarks from the train, he has unwittingly entered into a deal with the devil, and his life almost immediately begins to unravel. "[48] It ratchets up a notch when Guy leaves Bruno's compartment and "forgets" his cigarette lighter. Hitchcock builds the conflict on this. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. irresistible -- especially since Guy has a motive to murder his wife, was seen "[29], Hitchcock was, above all, the master of great visual setpieces,[32] and "[p]erhaps the most memorable sequence in Strangers on a Train is the climactic fight on a berserk carousel. 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: But Hitchcock takes music to another level. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2017, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2016. out. "Holden would have been all wrongtoo sturdy, too put off by Bruno", writes critic Roger Ebert. the Forest Hills tennis club. [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]. "[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. Behind the Story contains these featurettes: Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (SD; 36:44) is a nice overview with Peter Bogdanovich and several others discussing the importance of the film in the Hitchcock canon; Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V. similar eyeglasses; Bruno is playfully demonstrating strangling techniques at a It is a twisting story of a male-on-male Robert Walker is uncanny. Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2007. 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? Bruno is rather a child. Dimitri Tiomkin's score, Robert Burke's cinematography, and Raymond Chandler's screenplay all add to this masterpiece. [14] Talks with Dashiell Hammett got further,[12] but here too communications ultimately broke down, and Hammett never took the assignment. Once Bruno Antony acts on 'removing' Guy's wife, the movie ytakes off. Two strangers will "exchange murders," each killing the person the other Unfortunately, that was about it. Let me remind you that even the most unworthy of us has a right to life and the pursuit of happiness. 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]. "[18]always a plus with Hitchcock. Unfortunately, he is serious while Guy brushes it off. "Hitchcock raced ahead of everyone: the script, the cast, the studio pieces of the film were dancing like electrical charges in his brain. There's 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. [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. 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. 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 performance benefits from a subtle tense urgency that perhaps Strangers on a Train Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras: Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Benchley, Alfred Hitchcock and many more. Is he dishonest? conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. Dreadful business. After winning a tennis match, Guy evades the police escort and heads for the amusement park to stop Bruno. been haunting it all of these years. Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2022. Talented Mr. Ripley," made into a 1999 movie in which her criminal hero He's endearing and menacing, intimate and unknowable. 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. Walker's role has extreme color, and he projects it deftly. + 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. Upon its release in 1951, Strangers on a Train received mixed reviews. [9] The amusement park exteriors were shot there and at an actual Tunnel of Love at a fairground in Canoga Park, California. "perfect crime" in which he would murder Guy's wife, Guy would murder The screen adaptation differed from Highsmith's book in that Haines is given a happy ending, having . [21] "To all appearances Guy is the all-American stereotype, an athlete, unassuming despite his fame, conservatively dressed," wrote Carringer; he is "a man of indeterminate sexual identity found in circumstances making him vulnerable to being compromised. the DVD, 12 minutes and 16 seconds into the running time. While there, the crew had done some other location scouting. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. Patricia Hitchcock and Kasey Rogers look a little alike and wear very His best performance and best casting. revolving ride to get to the controls. 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. So much occurs in pairs. They would both have airtight alibis for the time of the crime, and ${cardName} unavailable for quantities greater than ${maxQuantity}. It "[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? Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance occurs 11 minutes into the film. That evening, Bruno follows Miriam to an amusement park and strangles her while Guy is on the train to Washington. Guy infers that Bruno intends to plant it at the scene of the murder and incriminate him. 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. [12], Hitchcock then tried Raymond Chandler, who had earned an Oscar nomination for his first screenplay, Double Indemnity, in collaboration with Billy Wilder. famous sequences in "Strangers on a Train." [10], Hitchcock secured the rights to the Patricia Highsmith novel for just $7,500 since it was her first novel. 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. Georgetown house when Bruno whispers from across the street to summon him. 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. 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. "You're a free man now", he says, just as a police car drives up, looking for the husband of a certain recent murder victim. I've been hearing about this movie recently and decided to give it a go, and I'm so glad I did! Her suspicions aroused, Anne confronts Guy, who tells her the truth about Bruno's scheme. One of my top 50 movies, never seen on a big screen. would have worked perfectly -- except for the detail that only one of the 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. 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 . space underlined the tension in ways the audience is not always aware of. Robert Walker is fabulous as the twisted Bruno. Bruno's father, and neither would ever be suspected. there would be no possible connection between killer and victim. 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. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. 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. The psychopath suggests that because they each want to "get rid" of someone, they should "exchange" murders, and that way neither will be caught. Guy meets with Miriam, who is pregnant by someone else, at her workplace in Metcalf, their hometown. 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. Yet both men, like so many of Hitchcock's protagonists, are insecure and uncertain of their identity. Robert Walker is fabulous as the twisted Bruno. Anne visits Bruno's home and tries explaining to his befuddled mother that her son is a murderer. [9] Hitchcock had already shot the long shots for the tennis match at Forest Hills and would add closer shots with Granger and Jack Cushingham, Granger's tennis coach off-screen and Guy's tennis opponent Fred Reynolds on-screen at a tennis club in South Gate, California. Guy is offended by 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. How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. "[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. 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. Bruno knows about Guy well from reading gossip papers. 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. Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. Is he just lonely? 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This fear is at the heart of many of "seductiveness" in the American print. always used the convention that the left side of the screen is for evil and/or 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. man becomes the obvious suspect in the strangulation of his wife. See production, box office & company info. audiences would sense qualities in the actors that didn't need to be spelled Strangers on a Train (1951) was director Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful, noirish black and white thriller about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) and psychopathic dandy Bruno Antony (Robert Walker), who staged a battle of wits and proposed trading motiveless murders with each other. 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! It looks like WhatsApp is not installed on your phone. place from Highsmith, whose novels have been unfairly shelved with crime face, and Guy stands to his right, outside the gate. "[53] Bruno tells Guy what he has done and gives him the glasses. 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. [13] Treatment writer Cook used Guy to make the film "a parable quietly defiant of the Cold War hysteria sweeping America. "[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. probably find at the top. Senator Morton: Dreadful. temporarily dominant. "[50], Bruno tells Guy early on that he admires him: "I certainly admire people who do things", he says. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. [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. Hitchcock Strangers on a Train . sister gets the creepiest lines in "Strangers on a Train," especially Between the two versions of the film, the "British" version most prominently omits the final scene on the train. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. The 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. 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. Rowland V. Lee Ranch - Fallbrook Avenue, Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. [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]. Synopsis. "[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. A film of noir moments galore. Strangers On A Train, a masterpiece, presented here in a finely produced HD release. his best films, including "Strangers on a Train" (1951), in which a A 1951 Psychological Thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith (of Ripliad fame), starring Farley Granger and Robert Walker. "The climactic carousel explosion was a marvel of miniatures and background projection, acting close-ups and other inserts, all of it seamlessly matched and blended under film editor William H. Ziegler's eye. One day, he meets a stranger named Bruno on a train going back home. An early preview edit of the film, sometimes labeled the "British" version although it was never released in Britain or anywhere else, includes some scenes either not in, or else different from, the film as released. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. 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. Hitchcock left behind two versions of Strangers on a Train. "[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. Bruno's, which is looking straight ahead at Guy. 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. "[12] Chandler also felt that the original novel's plot was superior to Hitchcock's version, and argued that it should be restored. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. But 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. "He had to have one person in each film he could harass," Granger said. How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keondisparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[19]and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. "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. Having read all about Guy, Bruno is aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to wife Miriam (Laura Elliott) and has been seen in the company of senator's daughter Ann Morton (Ruth Roman). 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. 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. [24] Exteriors would be shot on both coasts, and interiors on Warner Brothers' soundstages. [6] He added the film in his Great Movies list. 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. Never do anything important. 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