Strangers on a Train

Somehow, Mark and I managed to pry ourselves away from the election coverage this evening and settle in and watch a movie. Yep, right in the middle of the week! We've been on a Hitchcock kick lately, and tonight we watched Strangers on a Train. What a deliciously scary thriller! Terrorizing suspense, action, innuendo, and the incredible cinemetography Hitchcock is so famous for. I still have goosebumps!

Throughout his life, Hitchcock was said to have an intense terror of being accused of a crime he didn't commit. This theme is evident in many of his best films: To Catch a Thief, North by Northwest, Saboteur. This fear is also at the heart of Strangers on a Train, in which a man is the number one suspect in his wife's strangulation murder. Tennis star, Guy Haines (Farley Granger) meets Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train. Bruno is a creepy, mama's boy and deeply disturbed individual who strikes up an unusual conversation with Guy. Bruno's knowledge of Guy's personal life catches him off guard. Bruno knows that Guy desparately wants a divorce from his conniving tramp of a wife, so he can marry his true love, Ann, a senator's daughter. Bruno wants his rich, overbearing father dead. Bruno proposes an outrageous solution to their problems: they will trade murders. Guy laughs off the suggestion as they part, but Bruno's persistence lead to a suspense filled drama, in classic noir style. A riveting film that kept me on the edge of my seat with a racing pulse throughout.