Guy is a hotshot tennis player who is married but in love with another woman. Bruno is a charming chap who loves his mom but also happens to be a sociopathic homicidal maniac. They meet as strangers on a train but after the ride ends it's only the beginning of this wild ride from the suspense master Alfred Hitchcock. How many of you have your name on your tie? The obvious sexual tension between Guy and Bruno. Gigantic bucket list. Murder swap? All aboard the train Mr. Hitchcock. Complex baby mama drama. Dirty sneaky Mrs. Haines. Payphone death threat. Real motherfuckers get manicures from their mothers. Words can't describe how gangsta Bruno looks in his Liberace-esque robe. Carnies. You can…

We've always been on the outside, pushed there, shoved out, damned for who we are. It's easy to remember the blacklisted communists, but they came after the queers, too. Even before the Code, even before the blacklist, we always had to hide it, to make it subtle, to hint at it without saying it. We became pretty good at it, and if you knew what you were looking for, you could find it. Men had wives and women had husbands, but the right tension here, the right gesture there, and the symbol of queerness was on the screen for us to relate to. We've always been on the edges, telling our stories without telling our stories; that's why the conventional…

The closest thing Hitchcock has done to a Noir, Strangers on a Train is one of his most underrated. Right at the beginning of his best decade, it kicks off one of the best runs any director has had. I think one of the reasons it’s a les discussed Hitchcock is because it doesn’t have any big name stars, though the acting does not suffer because of it.

I am so impressed by the screenplay here, the tension is just perfectly constructed. It has all of Hitchcock’s favorite things, from trains to being wrongly accused.

I always appreciate Farley Granger more whenever I see him. I think in the 70s he would have been more of a star when the…

A thrilling ride of relentless suspense from beginning to end, Strangers on a Train continues Alfred Hitchcock's unprecedented run of quality thrillers and is one of the most memorable films of his remarkable film career. An aesthetic work of filmmaking, it remains one of the greatest examples of its genre & is also immortal for its contribution to cinema as a whole.

Based on the novel of the same name, Strangers on a Train concerns two strangers, a tennis player & a charming psychopath, who meet up on a train where the latter tells the former his theory of a 'perfect murder'. Things are however set in motion when the psychopath eventually goes on to implement his ideas for real.

The direction…

Suspense is a weird thing and Mr. Hitchcock seems to be able to find it with the greatest of ease.

Aided by a superb script, Hitchcock takes the fantastic premise to another level by instilling it with his unique style and amazing use of angles and perspective. It is ridiculous how far ahead of his time he was with this film in just about all aspects of filmmaking. He could turn something as simple as, oh let's say, a tennis match into edge of your seat stuff. Not to mention the merry-go-round ride at the end, which is a thing of beauty.

Hitchcock's films have given us some very memorable villains, but somehow Robert Walker's Bruno gets overlooked. He's more…

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Bruno Anthony: Everyone has somebody that they want to put out of the way. Oh now surely, Madam, you're not going to tell me that there hasn't been a time that you didn't want to dispose of someone. Your husband, for instance?

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, [in my opinion] is one of the best Hitchcock films. The storyline is great, and interesting. The characters are all very well developed, the performances are all great, but I think it's Robert Walker's performance as Bruno Antony that really steals the show, he is one of the most coolest and disturbing villains of the noir film in the cinematic history. One the reason that Strangers on a Train…

It's hard to go back to some of these classic Hitchcocks, many of which I haven't seen since college but which I obsessively watched and read about back then. I could regurgitate whatever nonsense I've retained from that period of my life, but I think what's more important is that even with my intense oversaturation in Hitchcock trivia I still find them an immense pleasure to watch.

One thing that I noticed this time through that I never really put together before is the way the first scene in the film is constructed. Before Bruno and Guy meet on the eponymous train, all we see of each of them is their shoes. We can tell that we're looking at two…

77/100

If the universe is truly infinite, somewhere out there is a near-duplicate of Earth where people idly wonder how much better Casablanca might have been with someone other than Ronald Reagan as Rick, but would be horrified at the very idea of Strangers on a Train with Farley Fucking Granger in the Montgomery Clift role. (Or pick whoever you think fits.) I've seen half-hearted defenses of Granger's performance, arguing that Guy needs to be more weak-willed than most stars of the era could manage, but weak-willed doesn't have to mean wooden. He's a total drag, and it's a testament to Hitchcock's genius (and to Highsmith's brilliant idea) that the movie approaches greatness even saddled with such a huge liability.…