Monday, September 27, 2010

Strangers on a Train (1951)

I bought this on dvd at the Camberwell market last Sunday.

This Hitchcock film tells the tale of Guy and Bruno, strangers who meet on a train one day. Bruno is a bit of a weirdo and starts talking about how he wishes his father was dead, and knows that Guy would like it if his estranged wife was dead so he could marry some babe (he knows this because Guy is a famous tennis player lol). Bruno thinks the perfect murder would be if they each did the other man's murder, because as randoms there would be no motive and stuff. Genius!



Only Bruno, as I mentioned, is a weirdo and actually kills Guy's hoe of a wife.
And Guy is a bit WTF?!?! OMG?!! about that.



Bruno then goes a bit crazy crazy demanding Guy kill his father or else he'll plant evidence that makes it look like Guy killed his wife. And thus a showdown at a carnival ensues.



My favorite character was Barbra because she was weird and didn't seem very 1950s-ish.

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