Strangers On A Train
USA - 1951 - black and white
| Written by: Raymond Chandler Czenzi Ormonde Whitfield Cook Based upon the novel by: Cinematography by: Production
design by: Costume
design by: Music by: Film editing by: Produced by: |
Cast Farley Granger (Guy Haines) Robert Walker (Bruno Antony) Ruth Roman (Anne Morton) Leo G. Carroll (senator Morton) Patricia Hitchcock (Barbara Morton) Marion Lorne (Mrs. Antony) Jonathan Hale (Mr. Antony) Howard St. John (captain Turley) Robert Gist (Hennessy) Laura Elliot (Miriam Haines) John Brown (Professor Collins) Norma Varden (Mrs. Cunningham) John Doucette (Hammond) |
| Bruno
Anthony meets the famous tennis champion, Guy Haines, on a train. Guy explains he wants to start a career in politics and marry a senator's daughter, but his wife doesn't allow him to divorce her. On the other hand, Bruno wishes his father would die, but he cannot kill him because he is afraid he will be caught by the police; so he proposes to Guy that they could exchange murders. At the beginning Haines takes that as a joke, but when he realizes Bruno is talking seriously, he leaves him alone and goes away. Bruno decides to take things into his own hands. He follows Miriam, Guy's wife, to Coney Island's circus and kills her, then he tells Guy to do the same with his father as they planned. Guy gets frightened and shocked and tells Bruno he would never commit such a crime. The man gets angry and decides to get revenge against the champion leaving Guy's lighter at the crime scene. The man is soon accused of his wife's murder and he decides to force Bruno to confess. He finds him in Coney Island, the murderer runs away and falls from a merry-go-round. An eye witness recognizes him as the man who was following Miriam on the day she was killed. We find here
another attempt to commit the perfect murder. |
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