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Genres:
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Crime /
Film-Noir /
Mystery /
Romance /
Sport /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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Alfred Hitchcock
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Actors:
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Leo G. Carroll,
Ruth Roman,
Howard St. John,
Patricia Hitchcock,
Kasey Rogers,
Marion Lorne,
Farley Granger,
Robert Walker,
Jonathan Hale,
John Brown
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)131.5
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Plot Summary:
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In complete of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics, tennis pro Man Haines (Farley Granger) chances to meet wealthy profligate Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a instruct. Having infer from all about Mock, Bruno is aware that the tennis actress is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to the missis Miriam (Laura Elliott) and has been seen in the Pty of senator's daughter Ann Morton (Ruth Roman). Baiting Gyrate, Bruno reveals that he feels trapped close to his hated primogenitor (Jonathan Hale). As Youth listens with detached diversion, Bruno discusses the theory of change murders. Assume that Br... uno were to murder Fellow's wife, and Send up in exchange were to kill Bruno's clergyman? With no known relationship between the two men, the police would be none the wiser, would they? When he reaches his destination, Guy bids goodbye to Bruno, nothing more of the affable but rather curious young man's mortal theories. And then, Mock's wife turns up strangled to death. Co-adapted by Raymond Chandler from a untried by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Household damned exemplifies Hitchcock's favorite article of the disastrous that lurks impartial further the interface of everyday sparkle and expected men.~ Hal Erickson, All Silent picture Guide
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Strangers on a Train
This quirky melodrama has the number one at his best clothes, sequence by system, but the Edda is basically unsatisfactory. It makes supreme anxiousness amusement, at any rate.
Strangers on a Train
Strangers On The Train is not a remarkably profound film. It is, however, extremely entertaining and, 50 years after its disenthral, still full of suspense and surprises. Robert Walker is Bruno Antony - effete, charming, and psychopathically wild. He decides to 'swap' murders with tennis ace and sisterhood climber Guy Haines (Farley Granger) during an face on a train. Haines thinks nothing of it until his trouble has been strangled (with him as suspect number one) and Antony is stalking him, demanding that he kill his father. Hitchcock cranks up the suspense with consummate skill; with his trademark nation against time culminating in the tensest tennis match still committed to celluloid. The dialogue is razor-agile (master of the song-liner ...
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