| Edition |
Two-disc special edition. |
| Description |
2 videodiscs (204 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith. |
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DVD release of the 1951 motion picture. |
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Region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono; dual-layer format. |
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Special features include: commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Highsmith, biographer Andrew Wilson, and others; excerpt from an interview with Alfred Hitchcock; theatrical trailer; Strangers on a train : a Hitchock classic (making-of documentary); The Hitchcocks on hitch (featurette); Strangers on a train : the victim's P.O.V. (featurette); Strangers on a train : an appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (featurette); Alfred Hitchcock's historical meeting (vintage newsreel). |
| Contents |
Disc 1. Final release version (101 min.) -- Disc 2. Preview version (103 min.). |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Robert Burks ; film editor, William Ziegler ; original music, Dimitri Tiomkin. |
| Cast |
Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll. |
| 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. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: PG. |
| System Details |
DVD, |
| Language |
Closed-captioned; English or French soundtracks; optional English, French or Spanish subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Local Note |
Some of the Simsbury Public Library items are are part of the Hayes Collection. |
| Subject |
Murder -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.
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Ormonde, Czenzi, 1906-2004.
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Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980.
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Granger, Farley.
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Roman, Ruth, 1922-1999.
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Walker, Robert, 1918-1951.
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Carroll, Leo G., 1886-1972.
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Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
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Warner Home Video (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Strangers on a train |
| ISBN |
0790789981 |
| Standard No. |
085393197520 |
| Music No. |
31975 Warner Home Video |
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