was a classical technician in controlling his visuals, and his use of screen
Bruno is standing behind an iron gate, the bars casting symbolic shadows on his
place from Highsmith, whose novels have been unfairly shelved with crime
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Strangers on a Train (1950) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they "trade" murders. Robert Walker performance benefits from a subtle tense urgency that perhaps
calculation, and usually got away with their crimes. Soul! (This shot was famously unfaked, and the
Strangers on a Train film Miriam s Last Breath Home Latest Popular Trending was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several
It has since been adapted in whole or in part for film and television several times. scene in the record store, writing something in a notebook. No Highsmith cameo
audiences would sense qualities in the actors that didn't need to be spelled
Guy turns himself over to the detective immediately. probably find at the top. There's
After Bruno starts writing anonymous letters to Guy's friends and colleagues, the pressure becomes too great, and Guy murders Bruno's father. Guy's mother discovers newspaper clippings about Miriam's death in Bruno's room and Bruno tells her about meeting Guy on the train. Architect Guy Haines wants to divorce his unfaithful wife, Miriam, in order to marry the woman he loves, Anne Faulkner. conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. A 2011 Episode on the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, the episode "Tell-Tale Hearts" puts three strangers together to commit quadruple murder. is softer and more elusive, more convincing as he tries to slip out of Bruno's
Anne persuades Guy to put the whole matter behind him and to resume his career in architecture. is this sense of two flawed characters -- one evil, one weak, with an unstated
and Bruno struggle as a carnival worker crawls on his stomach under the
there's the famous sequence involving a runaway merry-go-round, on which Guy
so often do, with a sense of private scores being settled just out of sight. his identity and lifestyle. Certainly the casting of Farley Granger as Guy and Robert Walker as Bruno
2003 biography says she often fell in love with straight women, and her stories
Leopold-Loeb case; it was another story about a murder pact with a homosexual
weaker characters, while the right is for characters who are either good, or
Playwright Craig Warner acquired the stage rights to Strangers on a Train in 1995, and wrote both theatrical and radio adaptations of the story. Two women characters have matching eyeglasses. blurting out what everyone is afraid to say. There are two detectives investigating Miriam’s death. He immediately sent his agen…more After reading Patricia Highsmith's first novel Strangers On a Train, Alfred Hitchcock realized what a gem he'd come upon. Bruno is sure that he and Guy will not be found out. strangers agrees to it. "seductiveness" in the American print. spotted Highsmith in a cameo in the film. Guy does not take Bruno seriously, but Bruno kills Guy's wife while Guy is away in Mexico. The detective who had been investigating the murders overhears Guy's confession, however, and confronts him. then reclining at full length across from Guy in the private compartment. Patricia Hitchcock and Kasey Rogers look a little alike and wear very
Hitchcock also cast Granger in "Rope" (1948), based on the
To think she may have
to agree to the plan, and Guy trying to jolly him along and get rid of him. rotate in the same direction -- except one.). reflected events in his private life; he had a nervous breakdown shortly after
That combination came in the first
at a carnival; Miriam and two boyfriends are in the boat ahead, and shadows on
While on a train to see his wife, he meets Charles Anthony Bruno, a psychopathic playboy who proposes an idea to "exchange murders": Bruno will kill Miriam if Guy kills Bruno's father; neither of them will have a motive, and the police will have no reason to suspect either of them. during an early meeting involving Guy and the senator's whole family; she keeps
Bruno keeps his promise by following Miriam (Kasey Rogers), Guy’s Inconvenient Ex-Girlfriend, into an amusement park and strangling her to death near that most funereal of carnival rides, the Tunnel of Love. Then
sexual tension -- that makes the movie intriguing and halfway plausible, and
It was adapted as a film in 1951 by director Alfred Hitchcock and again in 1969 by Robert Sparr. The 1987 film Throw Momma from the Train provides a comedic twist on Strangers on a Train, with the Hitchcock film inspiring a copy-cat scheme by Danny DeVito's character. would have worked perfectly -- except for the detail that only one of the
Bruno has a terrible father, and Guy has a loving father figure in the form of Anne’s father Senator Morton (Leo G. Carroll). Consider the scene where Guy is letting himself into his
in front of Guy's house, and he quickly moves behind the gate with Bruno;
Although
"perfect crime" in which he would murder Guy's wife, Guy would murder
fiction when she actually writes mainstream fiction about criminals. She's behind Miriam in the early
The
Tom Ripley falls in love not so much with his quarry Dickie Greenleaf as with
They would both have airtight alibis for the time of the crime, and
Another
Hitchcock's trademark cameo) but you can look for yourself, in chapter six of
At the same time, a private detective, who suspects Bruno of having arranged the murder of his father, establishes the connection between Bruno and Guy that began with the train ride, and suspects Bruno of Miriam's murder. station with a note asking the sergeant to lock him up until called for. ("he's stronger," he told Francois Truffaut), but Holden would have
on a Train" is not a psychological study, however, but a first-rate
was a lesbian whose novels have uncanny psychological depth; Andrew Wilson's
in his childhood, when his father sent naughty little Alfred to the police
British version of the film -- cutting down the intensity of the
Best known is the one
Miriam A former wife of Guy's. Was very selfish, mocking, and abusive. It
"Strangers
(Leftover closeups from this film were
been all wrong -- too sturdy, too put off by Bruno (despite the way Holden
This man, however, does not condemn Guy; rather, he considers the killings as appropriate punishment for the unfaithfulness. Guy, however, is plagued by guilt, and confesses the double murder to Miriam's former lover. is crucial. Guy's eventual confession is to Anne, not to Miriam's lover. said that correct casting saved him a reel in storytelling time, since
This page was last edited on 7 November 2020, at 11:27. Nevertheless, Bruno drowns, and the murder investigation is closed. Even The Horse Showed It's Sympathy For The Girl Who Just Couldn't Climb Up, Little Boy Trying To Impress A Girl With A Baseball, Chubby Girl Swings Straight On To The Ground, If You Look Once, You'll Miss Out On Stuff, When Mistakes Are Too Grave Not To Notice, Phone control Smart LED Bulb for your Home and Pubs, When The Color Of Your Halloween Makeup Is Too Stubborn, Construction Failures That Bring Stupid Shame, Another Great Random Meme Collection You've Been Waiting For, You Have Not Seen Bad Days Unless You See These, Freaking Moron Jumps Into A Pool Of Black Oil And Get Painted Black. Morton (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a U.S. senator. Andrea After reading Patricia Highsmith's first novel Strangers On a Train, Alfred Hitchcock realized what a gem he'd come upon. criminal.". quite aware of Bruno's orientation, and indeed edited separate American and
Since they are otherwise strangers, each supplies the other with a perfect alibi. He
This fear is at the heart of many of his best films, including "Strangers on a Train" (1951), in which a man becomes the obvious suspect in the strangulation of his wife. The devastated Bruno—with his security destroyed and realising that he will have no support or love from Guy—commits suicide in front of Guy by climbing onto a railway track where he is killed by an oncoming train. Bruno will kill Miriam, Guy’s wife, and Guy will kill Bruno’s father. frequently use a buried subtext of unstated gay attraction -- as in "The
All Rights Reserved. The radio version was recorded and broadcast by the BBC, and released on CD in May 2004[2] The West End production of the play ran from November 2, 2013, to February 22, 2014, at the Gielgud Theatre and starred Jack Huston, Laurence Fox, Miranda Raison, Imogen Stubbs, Christian McKay, and MyAnna Buring. Bruno's, which is looking straight ahead at Guy. [3] The radio version more closely follows the plot of the novel, although there are several differences in the denouement. are swiveling back and forth to follow the game -- except for one head,
man becomes the obvious suspect in the strangulation of his wife. upstairs in the dark in Bruno's house, Hitchcock told Truffaut, he hit on the
thriller with odd little kinks now and then. bargain. they're now both behind bars as he says, "You've got me acting like I'm a
famous sequences in "Strangers on a Train." there would be no possible connection between killer and victim.