Strangers on a Train

1951 "It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with shrieking excitement!"
7.9| 1h41m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 27 June 1951 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Pictures
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/strangers-train
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Two strangers meet on a train. They’ve never met before. Both of whom have someone they’d like to murder. So, they swap murders. A psychopath shares this concept with tennis star Guy Haines, whose wife refuses to get a divorce. He agrees, thinking it is a joke. But now his wife is dead, Haines finds himself a prime suspect and the man wants Guy to kill his father.

Genre

Thriller, Crime

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Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Strangers on a Train Audience Reviews

Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Mjeteconer Just perfect...
FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
Pjtaylor-96-138044 Its admittedly thrilling, if visually ageing, finale is a little silly compared to the rest, but this Hitchcock classic is a true staple of the Noir genre with a killer performance from Robert Walker and a simple premise pushed to its perfect peak. 'Strangers On A Train (1951)' has been reinvented, twisted around and straight-up redone more times than you can count, but this remains as thoroughly entertaining now as it ever was and a real reason why some things just shouldn't be remade. It isn't Hitchcock's best, but sits comfortably in his repertoire and is a suitably gripping film. 8/10
Ivan Lalic There are intellectual thrillers and then there are Alfred Hitchcock's intellectual thrillers! Being the guy that invented the entire genre, the famous director tries and produces one of his best works in a intertwined story about a perfect murder scheme created by the random meeting in a train. Basic plot so simple that it's genius will go on to produce some of the genre's best concepts and a dramatic finale that will justify the director's reputation for making immaculate crime stories for the big screen. „Strangers on a train" is a great movie in any era, a perfect crime story that stood the test of time and a homework for the generations of movie creators that followed it.
capone666 Strangers on a TrainThe perfect murder is any murder you can commit on a Sunday wearing your favourite pair of Crocs. However, the strangers in this thriller have a different idea of an idyllic homicide.Guy (Farley Granger) wants to leave his wife Miriam (Laura Elliott) and marry his mistress (Ruth Roman). Bruno (Robert Walker) wants his father dead. The two randomly meet on a train and agree to take care of each other's problems.While Bruno holds up his end of the bargain, Guy backs out on his. Infuriated, Bruno goes to plant evidence at the amusement park where he strangled Miriam, unless Guy can stop him. One of Alfred Hitchcock's most revered works, this redrafting of the 1950s bestseller remains a visual landmark to this day. Meanwhile, Raymond Chandler's hardboiled script retains its dark, relatable qualities.Moreover, it reminds us that strangers are just friends we haven't committed murder for yet. Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca
richard-1787 Yes, this is a very remarkable movie. There are 200+ reviews before mine on here to tell you so.So there's no point in my rehashing the plot, etc. It's all on here already.What I will say, however, is that part of what makes the final scenes, especially the magnificent final carousel scene, so riveting is the remarkable editing. Hitchcock is something like a juggler here. He runs several threats at the same time, and then cuts rapidly back and forth between them - the tennis match and the murderer in the amusement park, etc. - constantly changing the camera angles. Part of what makes us feel the tension of the plot is that he doesn't let us relax into a sense of expected repetition. Even when we go back to a scene we already know, we don't see it the same way.We know that Farley Granger's character will survive the wild ride on the carousel, for example, because that's how Hollywood movies work, but the carousel ride becomes so chaotic because seen from so many angles that we still worry he will be thrown off it and killed.No review of this movie can explain all the work Hitchcock put into it to make it so suspenseful. If you haven't see it already, treat yourself. Once he reels you in, you will be hooked until the end.