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Raymond Chandler (screenplay) and
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Release Date:
3 July 1951 (USA) more
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A girl in love with young America's idol--and a good-looking stranger in search of sensation--that's how it all began..! Warner Bros. bring a pounding new tempo to motion picture entertainment! more
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A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder...a theory that he plans to implement. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination more
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Also Known As:
Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (USA) (complete title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for some violence and tension.
Runtime:
101 min | Portugal:96 min (cut version) | 103 min (preview version)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) | Spain:13 | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:M (DVD rating) | Australia:PG (TV rating) | Sweden:15 | Germany:12 (DVD) | West Germany:16 (nf) | South Korea:12 (DVD rating) (2004) | South Africa:PG | Brazil:16 | USA:TV-PG | Finland:K-16 | France:U (re-release) | UK:PG | USA:Approved (certificate #14946) | USA:PG (new rating) (1996) | Argentina:13 | Norway:16

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"Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on December 3, 1951 with Ruth Roman reprising her film role. more
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Continuity: Tennis match played before the end of the movie is clearly put together from 2 different games - you can see those are different tennis courts and also stadiums. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Bruno Anthony: I beg your pardon, but aren't you Guy Haines?
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Castle: The Double Down (#2.2)" (2009) more
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Ain't We Got Fun more

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19 out of 30 people found the following review useful.
Strangers on a Train - a Review by Jo Henshaw, 15 June 2000
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Author: johenshaw from Coventry, England



"Lets swap Murders- your wife, my father"- seemingly innocent conversation between two strangers - Bruno Anthony and Guy Haines when they meet over lunch on a train journey. Guy, a solid, respectable tennis player, whose problem is that his wife, the flirtatious Miriam, won't divorce him so he can marry senators daughter Anne, laughs the whole conversation off as a joke. The following week he isn't laughing any more. In a scene of classic Hitchcock suspense, Bruno stalks Miriam through a carnival and strangles her. As he does, her glasses fall off and we see the murder eerily reflected twice through her lenses. Cold hearted and amoral Bruno, his part of the deal completed, approaches an appalled Guy expecting, even pressuring him into 'doing his bit.' Matters are not helped when Anne's precocious and outspoken younger sister turns up suspecting Guy of Miriam's murder. So accused of a murder he didn't commit and expected to commit another, what is Guy going to do? The power of this film is in the presentation of human beings as having a murderous side to their nature - and this Hitchcock does to perfection.

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