Fresh
Perhaps Strangers on a Train still hasn't yielded all its secrets.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Strangers on a Train
It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with shrieking excitement!
1951 · 1h 41m · PG
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
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Strangers on a Train
Overview
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
Director and cast
- Alfred Hitchcock Director
- Farley Granger as Guy Haines
- Ruth Roman as Anne Morton
- Robert Walker as Bruno Antony
- Leo G. Carroll as Senator Morton
- Patricia Hitchcock as Barbara Morton
- Kasey Rogers as Miriam Haines
- Marion Lorne as Mrs. Antony
- Jonathan Hale as Mr. Antony
- Howard St. John as Captain Turley
- John Brown as Prof. Collins
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Hitchcock was above all the master of great visual set pieces, and there are several famous sequences in Strangers on a Train.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
...his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
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.
TIME Magazine
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