June 13, 2007

Strangers on a Train (1951)

US
Alfred Hitchcock - Director / Producer
(appeared when Guy steps down the train)
Raymond Chandler - Screenwriter
Whitfield Cook - Screenwriter
Patricia Highsmith - Book Author
Czenzi Ormonde - Screenwriter
Robert Burks - Cinematographer

Farley Granger - Guy Haines
Robert Walker - Bruno Anthony
Ruth Roman - Ann Morton
Leo G. Carroll - Senator Morton
Patricia Hitchcock - Barbara Morton

This is what a thriller should look like. Needless to say, the beautiful mise-en-scene, immaculate plot development, the cross cutting and the duration of suspension. Wonderful 101 minutes of entertainment.

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