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Strangers on a Train
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Strangers on a Train is a 1951 American black-and-white film noir, melodrama, thriller, and drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay was written by Raymond Chandler and Ben Hecht, based on the work of Patricia Highsmith. The cast includes Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Leo G. Carroll. Robert Burks served as director of photography, with music composed by Dimitri Tiomkin and editing by William H. Ziegler. Ted Haworth was the production designer.
The film was produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Netflix. It has a runtime of 101 minutes and was filmed in Connecticut and New York City, with a narrative setting in Washington, D.C. The production cost was 1,200,000, and the revenue reached 7,000,000. It was rated PG and received an IMDb rating of 7.9 from 148,941 votes. The film holds a Metascore of 88 and an Rotten Tomatoes rating of 98%. It was nominated for one Oscar, with six wins and two nominations in total.
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7.7A 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.
Cast
- Farley Granger as Guy Haines
- Ruth Roman as Anne Morton
- Robert Walker as Bruno Antony
- Leo G. Carroll as Sen. Morton
- Patricia Hitchcock as Barbara Morton
- Kasey Rogers as Miriam Haines
Themes
- infidelity
- island
- based on novel or book
- perfect crime
- psychopath
- obsession
- detective
- suspicion
- theory
- carousel
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Ratings
IMDb
7.9/10
148,941 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
98%
Metacritic
88/100
- Year
- 1951
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenplay by
- Raymond Chandler Czenzi Ormonde
- Adaptation by
- Whitfield Cook
- Based on
- Strangers on a Train , 1950 novel, by Patricia Highsmith
- Produced by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Starring
- Farley Granger Ruth Roman Robert Walker
- Cinematography
- Robert Burks
- Edited by
- William Ziegler
- Music by
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Production company
- Transatlantic Pictures
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros.
- Release date
- June 30, 1951 ( 1951-06-30 )
- Running time
- 101 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.2 million
- Box office
- $7 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Screenwriter
- Ben Hecht
- Cast member
- Murray Alper
- Composer
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Producer
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Cinematographer
- Robert Burks
- Narrative location
- Washington, D.C.
- Filming location
- New York City
- Duration
- 101
- FilmAffinity ID
- 966902
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Sport
- tennis
- Image
- Strangers on a Train - Romance.png
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- Commons category
- Strangers on a Train (film)
- publication date
- 1951-00-00
- film editor
- William H. Ziegler
- title
- Strangers on a Train
- distributed by
- Netflix
- production designer
- Ted Haworth
- after a work by
- Patricia Highsmith
- color
- black-and-white
- capital cost
- 1200000
- costume designer
- Leah Rhodes
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 7.9/10
- box office
- 7021461
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Encyclopedic overview
Strangers on a Train is a 1951 American psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and adapted by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde from the 1950 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith. It was shot in late 1950, and released by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 30, 1951, starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman and Robert Walker.
The story concerns two strangers who meet on a train, one of whom is a psychopath who suggests that they "exchange" murders so that neither will be caught. The film initially received mixed reviews, but has since been regarded much more favorably. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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