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A provocative premise and inventive set design lights the way for Hitchcock diabolically entertaining masterpiece.
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1
A provocative premise and inventive set design lights the way for Hitchcock diabolically entertaining masterpiece.
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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,
Jul 3, 1951 Wide
Aug 27, 1997
Warner Home Video
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (1) | DVD (23)
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.
Top CriticPerhaps Strangers on a Train still hasn't yielded all its secrets.
Hitchcock was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several famous sequences in Strangers on a Train.
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.
Top Critic...his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand.
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.
Classic nail-biter is a must for thriller fans.
the work most necessary for a deeper appreciation of Hitchcock's late masterpieces.
Even more marvelous after a second viewing
Hitchcock's handling of the suspense is deadly effective and a quality cast breathe life into some delicious dialogue.
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.
The prototypical Hitchcock thrill ride.
Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" is about weakness crisscrossing with evil, with evil pushing hard for the upper hand. Nobody comes away unscathed.
worthy vehicle that displays Hitchcock's narrative ability and explores some of his favorite themes
...if the intellectual games, the fancy camera work, and the outright suspense don't get to you, there is always the superb performance of Robert Walker to consider.
Most of the film is a journey through pure Hitchcockian irony and suspense, and well worth the trip.
Patricia Highsmith's malicious writing seems perfectly suited to Alfred Hitchcock.
Alfred Hitchcock loved to plunge ordinary people into extraordinary situations culminating in feverish life or death climaxes, and Strangers On A Train is one of his finest efforts. This film is fantastically atmospheric with a palpable malevolence throughout. It also features unforgettable performances, particularly
March 7, 2012
Super Reviewer
Everyone has someone they want dead. From this casual statement of a very secret everyman wish comes a suspenseful amusement park ride, a descent into madness wrapped in a candy box. Walker's Bruno is one of the most seductive of cinematic villains and certainly one of the best reasons to see one of the best of
February 25, 2012Super Reviewer
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