Rating: PG
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 06/11/1997
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 1/5.1
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
In one of
Alfred Hitchcock's
suspense classics, tennis pro
Guy Haines (
Farley Granger) chances to meet wealthy wastrel
Bruno Anthony (
Robert Walker) on a train. Having read all about
Guy,
Bruno is aware that the tennis player is trapped in an unhappy marriage to to wife
Miriam (
Laura Elliott) and has been seen in the company of senator's daughter
Ann Morton (
Ruth Roman). Baiting
Guy,
Bruno reveals that he feels trapped by his hated father (
Jonathan Hale). As
Guy listens with detached amusement,
Bruno discusses the theory of "exchange murders." Suppose that
Bruno were to murder
Guy's wife, and
Guy in exchange were to kill
Bruno's father? With no known link between the two men, the police would be none the wiser, would they? When he reaches his destination,
Guy bids goodbye to
Bruno, thinking nothing more of the affable but rather curious young man's homicidal theories. And then,
Guy's wife turns up strangled to death. Co-adapted by
Raymond Chandler from a novel by
Patricia Highsmith,
Strangers on a Train perfectly exemplifies
Hitchcock's favorite theme of the evil that lurks just below the surface of everyday life and ordinary men.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
