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Strangers on a train
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Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no c...
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
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- Creator
- [presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures ; screen play by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Languages
- English, French
- Contributors
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- Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959
- Ormonde, Czenzi, 1906-2004
- Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980
- Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979, composer
- Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995
- Granger, Farley
- Roman, Ruth, 1922-1999
- Walker, Robert, 1918-1951
- Carroll, Leo G., 1886-1972
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Publication
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- Two-disc special edition
- Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004]
- Physical Details
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- 2 videodiscs (204 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- ISBNs
- 0790789981, 9780790789989
- OCLC
- ocm56365706
- Credits
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- Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll
- Director of photography, Robert Burks ; film editor, William Ziegler ; original music, Dimitri Tiomkin
- Closed Captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
- DVD release of the 1951 motion picture.
- Special features include: commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Highsmith, biographer Andrew Wilson, and others; excerpt from an interview with Alfred Hitchcock; theatrical trailer; Strangers on a train : a Hitchock classic (making-of documentary); The Hitchcocks on hitch (featurette); Strangers on a train : the victim's P.O.V. (featurette); Strangers on a train : an appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (featurette); Alfred Hitchcock's historical meeting (vintage newsreel).
- DVD.
- In English with optional language soundtrack in french; optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.
- Disc 1. Final release version (101 min.) -- Disc 2. Preview version (103 min.)