Strangers on a Train (1951)



Genres
Thriller

Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Writers
Raymond Chandler
Patricia Highsmith (novel)
Czenzi Ormonde

Composer
Dmitri Tiomkin

Director of Photography
Robert Burks

Review
Walker gives his finest performance as psychopath involved with tennis star Granger in "exchange murders." Lorne is unforgettable as doting mother; so is merry-go-round climax. First-class Hitchcock, based on a Patricia Highsmith novel and coscripted by Raymond Chandler. Remade as Once You Kiss a Stranger and the inspiration for Throw Momma From the Train.

Trivia
Once again Hitchcock bought the rights to the original novel anonymously to keep the price down and got them for just $7,500

Raymond Chandler is credited as the main author of the script, but it was almost completely written by Czenzi Ormonde who was credited as second author.


Cameo

Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance early in the film boarding a train carrying a double bass fiddle as Farley Granger gets off the train (see also his cameo in The Paradine Case).

Joel Allen
Policeman
Murray Alper
Boatman
Monya Andre
Dowager
John Brown
Professor Collins
John Butler
Blind Man
Leonard Carey
Butler
Leo G. Carroll
Senator Morton
Edward Clark
Mr. Hargreaves
John Doucette
Hammond
Laura Elliot
Miriam Haines
Roy Engel
Policeman
Tommy Farrell
Miriam's Boyfriend
Sam Flint
Man
Robert Gist
Hennessy
Farley Granger
Guy Haines
Jonathan Hale
Mr. Antony
Eddie Hearn
Sgt. Campbell
Harry Hines
Man Under Merry-Go-Round
Patricia Hitchcock
Barbara Morton
Mary Alan Hokanson
Secretary
Edna Holland
Mrs. Joyce
J. Louis Johnson
Butler
Louis Lettieri
Boy
Marion Lorne
Mrs. Antony
Charles Meredith
Judge Dolan
Ralph Moody
Seedy Man
Rolland Morris
Miriam's Boyfriend
Odette Myrtil
Madame Darville
Minna Phillips
Dowager
George Renevant
Monsieur Darville
Ruth Roman
Anne Morton
Howard St. John
Captain Turley
Janet Stewart
Girl
Shirley Tegge
Girl
Laura Treadwell
Mrs. Anderson
Norma Varden
Mrs. Cunningham
Robert Walker
Bruno Antony
Howard
Washington
Waiter
Dick Wessel
Bill

 



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