Highsmith Alfred Hitchcock United States 100 min
In Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, tennis star Guy Haines strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony, and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events.
In Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, tennis star Guy Haines is enraged by his trampy wife's refusal to finalize their divorce so he can wed senator's daughter Anne. He strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony, and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Psychopathic Bruno kills Guy's wife, then urges Guy to reciprocate by killing Bruno's father. Meanwhile, Guy is murder suspect number one.
"Hitchcock was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several famous sequences in Strangers on a Train, the film is one of his best" - Roger Ebert
"Hitchcock's favourite device of an ordinary man caught in an ever-tightening web of fear plunges Guy into one of the director's most fiendishly effective movies" - BBC
"The power of the story - adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith - lies in its simplicity, and Hitchcock's piles on the sinister layers as only he can" - Empire Magazine
Credits:
- Actor
- Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
Running Time: 100 min
Year: 1951
Country: United States
Languages: English
Subtitles: No subtitles
Recomended Age: PG
