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Strangers on a Train [Blu-ray] [1957] [US Import]

Robert Walker , Leo G. Carroll , Alfred Hitchcock    Blu-ray
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Farley Granger
  • Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
  • Format: Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.37:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 9 Oct 2012
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B008DMQDZS
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 10,938 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (coscripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. --Jeff Shannon

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Format:DVD
Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets Bruno Antony (Robert Walker) on a train and Bruno has the idea for a perfect murder. If two people, who ostensibly have never met, swap murders there will be no apparent motive and nothing to link each to the other's crime. Guy humours Bruno, largely to get rid of him, but Bruno actually carries out the murder of his wife, and then expects him to return the favour. This is the basis of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train.

Packed with great set-pieces (the tennis match, the climactic carousel ride), stunning technical shots (we see Miriam Haines' murder through her own glasses) and a superb villain in the form of Robert Walker's Bruno Antony, Strangers On A Train was a return to form for Hitch after three relatively disappointing films both in terms of critical and commercial reaction (Rope, Under Capricorn & Stage Fright).

Hitchcock expertly toys with the audience's emotions throughout the film. Although Bruno is a murderer, we feel more sympathetic to him that we do to Guy at times. After all, Guy would like to have done it himself and shows little emotion at his wife's death. A great moment comes when Bruno decides to blackmail Guy; having kept Guy's lighter he intends to place it at the scene of the murder and whilst we, as viewers, desperately want Guy to finish his tennis match in time (and escape the attentions of the police) in order to give chase to Bruno, we also hope that Bruno, who drops the lighter down a drain on his way to the scene, manages to grab the lighter and continue on his journey. It's also true in general terms that Hitchcock's camera seems to prefer the charismatic and flamboyant Bruno to the more stoic and, well, dull Guy.

As ever with Hitchcock, the film was very different from the Patricia Highsmith novel upon which it was based; in the book Guy actually kills Bruno's father and Bruno's main motivation is not the death of his father but his hope of an amorous relationship with Guy, a strand of the story firmly pushed to the background in the movie, although there are intriguing nuances that hint at it.

A great initial idea, a tight script, a superb villain, some cracking set-pieces and the suspense and tension cranked up to the maximum. Whatever way you look at it, Strangers On A Train is a great slice of Hitchcock action.
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A chance meeting in a train carriage brings Robert Walker's deceptively amiable Bruno into conversation with smart society tennis player (Farley Granger). Both men hypothesise on the nature of killing, and Bruno suggests that they exchange a verbal contract of murder, Granger's wife for Walker's father, much to the sportsman's amusement. But when his wife turns up strangled days later and a brief phone call reminds Granger of his obligation he understands, with chilling realisation, the contract was all too real. The premise of the film fits neatly as a parable of a pact with the devil. Walker is a psychopath with his eye on family money, his father the sole remaining obstacle to his inheritance, whilst Granger is in a stale marriage with his eye on another woman. Murder would suit both very well, but conscience pulls Granger back from the brink, his mind unable to cope with the enormity of murder. He is, however, in a battle of wits with a man in every sense his intellectual equal and unrestrained by the need to play to rules. Hitchcock's playground: the human conscience and the merry dance it can lead us, is given good airing here as the metaphorical noose slips tighter around Granger's neck. Both men give good value in their respective roles but you sense that it is Walker, with beguiling charm and understated menace, who is close in spirit to his psychotic character than Granger is to his perplexed nemisis.
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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Strange and Wonderful Accomplishment 28 Feb 2004
Format:DVD
This film is absolute Hitchcock. The suspense, the tension, the whole atmosphere is mouth watering. The dialogue is utterly stunning and the cinematography is quite brilliant. I am running out of superlatives to describe this film but one more superb aspect must be mentioned; the performance by Robert Walker. As the slightly deranged, yet extremely intelligent, young man Walker is absolutely spectacular. His mannerism is so incredibly convincing it is shocking and without him my rating of this film would be completely different.

The essential plot behind the film is that of two strangers meeting on a train (one being the slightly insane Walker) with one of the two unwittingly landing himself in a difficult situation, where he finds he is an accessory to murder with nowhere to hide. As with all Hitchcock films it is the suspense that makes the film an absolute masterpiece of cinema. However, with this film many other elements (mainly Walker) push the bar even higher giving an indescribably good product.

The only minor let down in this film was Farley Granger's part which I found to be lacking slightly. This, however, cannot detract from its 5 star rating and this is still a must buy film, especially if you are a fan of the classics.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THIS NEVER DATES FOR ME
Far better than the remake, it has suspense and menace and is simply a very good story, well acted and well told.
Published 1 month ago by Mrs. J. Stark
5.0 out of 5 stars Hitch does it again
There countless reasons to love the films of Alfred Hitchcock and this is among his better films.. if you don't own a copy, you should
Published 1 month ago by Mark C Enders
5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous transfer HD
i have never seen this movie and l verry appréciate the HD tansfer, it's gorgeous.The sounds is also verry good
Published 3 months ago by francois lamoureux
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic film!
This is Hitchcock and a classic AND just as good as the first time that I saw it on TV.
Published 4 months ago by David S
3.0 out of 5 stars Hitchcock's film is a victim of Hollywood
The novel this film is based on has a simple but delicious premise: two strangers on a train meet and after complaining about one's wife and the other's father, they joke about... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Miss Scarlett
5.0 out of 5 stars A Master At Work
Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film Strangers On A Train is perhaps one of his lesser known works, but, for me, it is right up there with the very best films Hitch made such as Vertigo,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Keith M
2.0 out of 5 stars Puppet theatre
This film could have been shot without a word of dialogue - it may have been better had it been. What's good about the film? Read more
Published 15 months ago by W. Hamilton
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie
Great actors, atmosphere and plot. One of those movies that you give your teenager children to watch so that they can learn what a good movie is. Great for a rainy night. Read more
Published 20 months ago by anna
4.0 out of 5 stars Strangers on a train
Though not as good as 'North by Northwest', 'Vertigo' or 'Rear Window', but this psychological thriller still delivers. It's gripping and keeps you in suspense.
Published 21 months ago by Miss B
5.0 out of 5 stars Dateless Classic
If anyone wants to find out where most of movie-makers of the last few decades got their ideas from for intrigue, suspense, audacious shock - look no further than this masterpiece. Read more
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