Strangers on a Train
Tennis pro Guy Haines chances to meet wealthy wastrel Bruno Anthony on a train. Bruno suggests that because they each want to 'get rid' of someone, they should 'exchange' murders, and that way neither will be caught.
28 July 1899, Beresford, South Dakota, USA
23 September 1904, Glencoe, Illinois, USA
12 August 1883, West Pittston, Pennsylvania, USA
February 6, 1896 in New York City, New York, USA
28 June 1898, Paris, France
9 October 1905, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 November 1886, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
13 August 1899, Leytonstone, London, England, UK
9 September 1903, Hove, East Sussex, England, UK
February 25, 1887 in London, England, UK
13 October 1918, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
August 02, 2013
Rousing thriller with creative fairground scenes and much about technology.
May 05, 2012
Arguably one of Hitchcock's masterpieces, this intrguing film deals with all the autuer's issues, including the double motif, moral ambiguity, fine line between hero and villain.
February 09, 2006
Hitchcock erects a web of guilt around Granger, who 'agreed' to his wife's murder, a murder that suits him very well, and structures his film around a series of set pieces, ending with a paroxysm of violence on a circus carousel.
August 01, 2008
the work most necessary for a deeper appreciation of Hitchcock's late masterpieces.
February 13, 2001
Given a good basis for a thriller in the Patricia Highsmith novel and a first-rate script, Hitchcock embroiders the plot into a gripping, palm-sweating piece of suspense.
February 04, 2008
Perhaps Strangers on a Train still hasn't yielded all its secrets.
January 01, 2000
...his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand.
January 15, 2004
Hitchcock was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several famous sequences in Strangers on a Train.
April 30, 2013
With typical consummate verve, Hitch unfolds a story filled with twists, turns and dramatic contrasts.
February 17, 2008
Even more marvelous after a second viewing
August 30, 2009
Winds up with a scene in which a merry-go-round goes wild, spins like a pin wheel, and crashes in a gaudy blaze of explosions that no earthly carrousel could touch off. The movie itself is the same way: implausible but intriguing and great fun to ride.
January 02, 2011
Classic nail-biter is a must for thriller fans.
