Strangers on a Train

UPC: 883929247035

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations]

Summary: 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, Rovi

Category: Thriller

Awards: Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Black and White Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review

Features: Final release version with commentary
Preview version
Making-of documentary Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
3 featurettes

Strangers on a Train

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 10/09/2012

Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1 Academy Apeture

Audio: DHMA null, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 103 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Region: Blu-ray region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia)

Lucia Bozzola

From the opening shots of two pairs of shoes walking, two train tracks crisscrossing, and those shoes accidentally bumping toes, Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) explores one of his signature concerns: the coexistence of good and evil in one person. In a story adapted from Patricia Highsmith's novel and structured through a series of doublings, Robert Walker's Bruno becomes the flamboyant homicidal id to Farley Granger's stiff arriviste Guy, obliging Guy's desire to eliminate his wife and expecting Guy to return the favor with Bruno's father. After the murder, dreamily reflected in a pair of eyeglasses, Bruno haunts Guy, menacingly popping into Guy's life in Washington and on the tennis court. Yet, with Walker's charisma and Granger's weakness, Bruno is the more charming figure, revealing the appeal of moral chaos even as that chaos must be punished. Hitchcock's persistent pairs -- shoes, train tracks, crossed tennis racquets on Guy's lighter, two fateful carnival trips, two bespectacled women -- point to the ineffable connection between Bruno and Guy, and the (literally) dark psychosis that lurks beneath everyone's bright, well-ordered surface. A popular success, Strangers on a Train was Hitchcock's return to form after several failures. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Al Hill  Actor 
Rolland Morris  Actor 
Shirley Tegge  Actor 
Charles Meredith  Actor 
Louis Lettieri  Actor 
Murray Alper  Actor 
Roy Engel  Actor 
Minna Phillips  Actor 
Dick Wessel  Actor 
John Butler  Actor 
Sam Flint  Actor 
J. Louis Johnson  Actor 
Monya Andre  Actor 
Tommy Farrell  Actor 
Edna Holland  Actor 
Georges Renavent  Actor 
Leonard Carey  Actor 
Dick Ryan  Actor 
Joel Allen  Actor 
Harry Hines  Actor 
Odette Myrtil  Actor 
Joe Warfield  Actor 
Mary Alan Hokanson  Actor 
Edward Clark  Actor 
Edward Hearn  Actor 
Ralph Moody  Actor 
Laura Treadwell  Actor 
Janet Stewart  Actor 
Raymond Chandler  Screenwriter 
Whitfield Cook  Screenwriter 
Alfred Hitchcock  Director 
Alfred Hitchcock  Producer 
Dimitri Tiomkin  Composer (Music Score) 
Czenzi Ormonde  Screenwriter 
Farley Granger  Actor 
Robert Walker  Actor 
Ruth Roman  Actor 
Leo G. Carroll  Actor 
Patricia Hitchcock  Actor 
Laura Elliot  Actor 
Marion Lorne  Actor 
Jonathan Hale  Actor 
Howard St. John  Actor 
John Brown  Actor 
Norma Varden  Actor 
Robert Gist  Actor 
John Doucette  Actor 

Country: USA