Review of Strangers on a Train (1951) by Rajneel S — 24 May 2009
Fascinating, psychologically complex and highly original, Hitchcock's compelling and engrossing adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel about a tennis pro who falls victim to the designs of creepy psychopath with a homosexual attraction for him.
While Hitchcock's style here is more commercial and less specific to his own unique vision, the constantly developing story and wonderful handling of actors, music and action forms an engaging and taut thriller which is only hiccuped by the film's age.
Indeed the story is only plausible in an era where forensics were far more primitive than today and several sequences would only have been amplified had Hitchcock the technology and visual vocabulary to get the most of out them (the tennis game for instance), but all up this is certainly one of the master's finest yarns and filled with characters, circumstances and turns of plot you are unlikely to see anywhere else.
Check it out.
This review of Strangers on a Train (1951) was written by Rajneel S on 24 May 2009.
Strangers on a Train has generally received very positive reviews.
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