
Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of h... (Full plot summary below)
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Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused to divorce him. It all leads the police to believe Guy is responsible for the murder, forcing him to deal with Bruno's mad ravings.
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| Filmcritic.comMark AthitakisTwo men, a problem, and a crime is an old theme, but the list of works that exploit it perfectly is a short one. Strangers on a Train belongs on it. |
| Common Sense MediaScott G. MignolaClassic nail-biter is a must for thriller fans. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertStrangers on a Train is not a psychological study, however, but a first-rate thriller with odd little kinks now and then. It proceeds, as Hitchcock's films so often do, with a sense of private scores being settled just out of sight. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelA black comedy, really, based on Patricia Highsmith's source novel - remains a cracking piece of entertainment. It is shot with all his usual invention and style, and a couple of scenes rank among the director's most visually memorable. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrPerhaps Strangers on a Train still hasn't yielded all its secrets. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonPatricia Highsmith's malicious writing seems perfectly suited to Alfred Hitchcock. |
| Cinemaphile.orgDavid Keyes...one of the original shells for identity-inspired mystery thrillers, in which natural human behavior is the driving force behind the true macabre. |
| BBC.comAlmar HaflidasonHitchcock's favourite device of an ordinary man caught in an ever-tightening web of fear plunges Guy into one of the director's most fiendishly effective movies. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsTed PriggeOf all the films Hithcock made, this is one of his absolute masterpieces. |
| Classic Film and TelevisionMichael E. GrostRousing thriller with creative fairground scenes and much about technology. |