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Strangers on a train
Uniform Title
Strangers on a train (Motion picture)
Title
Strangers on a train / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; screen play by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
ISBN
9780780664227
0780664221
Publication
Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment, [2010]
Distribution
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2010]
Copyright Notice Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
Special features include: commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Highsmith, biographer Andrew Wilson, and others ; theatrical trailer.
"Final release version"--disc label.
Director of photography, Robert Burks ; editor, William Ziegler ; music, Dimitri Tiomkin.
English; French dialogue; with optional English, French, and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Summary
Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train.
Variant and related titles
Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a train
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2018
Series
Turner Classic Movies greatest classic films collection. Hitchcock thrillers
Credits
Director of photography, Robert Burks ; editor, William Ziegler ; music, Dimitri Tiomkin.
Cast
Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll.
System details note
DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
Issue number
31975 Warner Home Video
Genre/Form
Feature films - United States.
Feature films - Great Britain.
Detective and mystery films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Film noir.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Detective and mystery films.
Film noir.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), production company.
Warner Home Video (Firm), film distributor.
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