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Saturday, Jul 1, 2017
5:30 PM (103 mins)
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Strangers on a Train
BAMPFA Student Committee Pick
Based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith
Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll,
For Hitchcock and Patricia Highsmith both, the doppelgänger, the double, is a shark in the murky waters of innocence and culpability. In this Faustian treatment of the transference of guilt, Robert Walker plays the psychopathic sprite Bruno, who empathically makes himself the agent for Farley Granger’s unannounced desire to murder his wife. The screenplay, coauthored by Raymond Chandler from Highsmith’s 1950 novel, serves up Walker’s style of smirking innuendo on a silver tray. In no other Hitchcock film is sexuality so obsessively suffused with black humor; we know that Hitchcock is Bruno’s double.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Raymond Chandler
- Czenzi Ormonde
- Whitfield Cook
- Ben Hecht
Based On
the novel by Patricia Highsmith
Cinematographer
- Robert Burks
Print Info
- B&W
- 35mm
- 103 mins
Source
- Warner Bros. Classics
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Hitchcock's British 'Strangers' to open (article), Los Angeles Times, Kevin Thomas, 1996
Hitchcock: the master of suspense (program note), Stanford Theatre, 1992
Strangers on a train (article), Village Voice, Andrew Sarris, 1987
Film noir -- excerpt (book excerpt), Secker and Warburg, Alain Silver, 1980
Alfred Hitchcock (program), New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y.), 1977
Hitchcock, the enunciator (article), Camera obscura, Raymond Bellour, 1977
Billy Wilder / Alain Resnais (program note), National Film Theatre (London, England), Richard Roud, 1968
Alfred Hitchcock: part two American years 1940-1951 (program), Dartmouth Film Society, 1966
Strangers on a train (review), Variety, Brog., 1951
Curtain calls : Hitchcock eludes interview in discussion of proper wink (article), Oakland Tribune, Wood Soanes, 1951
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