Strangers on a Train
- Crime
- Drama
- Thriller
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
- Directed by
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Written by
- Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde
- Based on
- Patricia Highsmith
Cast
- Farley Granger
- Ruth Roman
- Robert Walker
Leo G. Carroll
Patricia Hitchcock- Kasey Rogers
- Marion Lorne
- Jonathan Hale
Howard St. John- John Brown
- Norma Varden
- Robert Gist
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- suspenseful
- island
- obsession
- stalking
- amusement park
- strangulation
- psychopath
- trains
- detective
- black and white
- train
- suspicion
- infidelity
- tennis pro
- double cross
- chance meeting
- film noir
- lighter
- theory
- carousel
- fiancée
- perfect crime
- tennis match
- husband wife estrangement
- cocktail party
- perfect murder
- penn station
- storm drain
- murder swap
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