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Strangers on a Train (1951) watch along (Patreon)

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2026-05-15 12:05:02
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This film is BRILLIANT! I loved it, and I think it's a great reaction! I had a supporting cast, aka Lemmy!

I left all my thoughts in the outro! I am sorry I can't get my write-up out rn!

enjoy!

xx

ames

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Strangers on a Train (1951)

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Toc

YES!!!!! I knew you'd love this one!! I remember I saw this way after I had seen most of the other classic Hitchcocks and had almost gotten blasé about him. Ended up being in my top three Hitchcocks, totally set me straight! That actor, Robert Walker, he od'd and died right after this movie! That's why you've never heard of him!!! What a loss to movies! What a performance! Ok.....finishing some chores and errands.....and then.....at last.....Strangers On A Train!!!! Thanks, Ames!!!

Alan Jones

Yay!!! Strangers on a Train won out, and I for one was delighted that it did. It's one of my favorite films from my absolute favorite director. Heaven...I'm in heaven! Farley Grainger (Guy) also costarred in an earlier Hitchcock film, Rope (1948), which is quirky but well worth seeing. Leo G. Carroll (Sen. Morton) you'll recognize from North by Northwest (1959), where he played the intelligence manager code named the Professor. Carroll was one of Hitch's go-to supporting players, featuring him in no less than six films. IMO, Spellbound (1945) is his best Hitch appearance, but I also got a kick out of him in the Hayley Mills version of The Parent Trap (1961), where he played a minister with a lively sense of humor. You were particularly taken with Barbara. Did you notice that the actor was named Hitchcock? The director's daughter, Patricia Hitchcock, showed up in three of Daddy's films in supporting roles, previously in Stage Fright (1950), and later in Psycho (1960), where she played Marian's office co-worker at the start of the film. Marian Lorne (Mama Antony) impressed me here. She would enjoy a recurring role in the 60s on the sitcom Bewitched, where she played an eternally befuddled witch causing comic complications from time to time. I had a great time. Thank you for reacting to this film, and thank you to the subscribers who voted it in.

T W

Robert Walker's Bruno Anthony is one of my favorite 'villain' performances of all time. Robert Walker before this almost exclusively played a kind of "aw shucks" innocent boyish charming character, so casting him as Bruno was going against type the same way Fred MacMurray was in Double Indemnity. He was also Hitchcock's first choice for the character, Farley Granger was the second choice for Guy, William Holden was Hitchcock's first choice. People like to criticize Farley Granger's acting in this, I think he's great for the character too. Holden would have projected a masculine or macho energy even when he's not trying to that would have undermined the Bruno/Guy dynamic. I don't think Guy is purely good or that Bruno is simply evil. They're two expressions of the same human capacity for desire and violence and self-deception. You're right about Bruno being hinted to be homosexual, Hitchcock and Walker brainstormed how Bruno's mannerisms would show it. During the party scene, right before Guy hits Bruno, he says "But Guy, I like you..." He doesn't mean like, he means love, and the way Guy reacts is most likely meant to be like a homophobic response to that. Guy seems to really love Anne, but there may be some bisexual feelings that Guy himself is supressing towards Bruno. In the moment Bruno says the most honest thing he says in the whole film, Guy reacts with immediate violence. Farley Granger himself was gay though and I think it's part of the reason why Hitchcock cast him in Rope and this as a character who is hiding a secret. Guy responds to Bruno with that particular mixture of attraction and repulsion that the screenplay keeps coding as mere annoyance, but Granger plays it as something more internal and conflicted. I don't think Bruno engineered their meeting, but them brushing shoes was like the beginning of their meet-cute story in Bruno's mind. The shoe touch didn't create Bruno's fixation, it confirmed it. From his point of view the universe arranged for him to be on that specific train in that specific seat at that specific moment so they could meet. One thing you don't notice until you've seen it more than once, when Bruno and Guy meet, Guy never offers his hand to shake. His hand is just resting on the tray in front of him. Bruno reaches across, grabs it with both hands and just starts shaking it. Guy didn't offer anything, Bruno just took it. It's the entire film's dynamic in one gesture that lasts about two seconds. Bruno deciding something is happening between them and acting on that decision regardless of whether Guy has agreed. He doesn't ask, he just takes and calls it friendship

VivendoBem

Hitch finally back on the channel! CAN'T WAIT!!! (Maybe, someday, Notorious? Cary Grant at his zenith, imo!)

Michael T

Great reaction, Ames! Three things you mentioned in the outro caught my attention: 1) There definitely is a homoerotic subtext, which (as usual with Hitchcock) is way ahead of its time. 2) When that merry-go-round crashes at the end, it's undoubtedly true that innocent people would be killed or maimed, including lots of children. Pretty grim. 3) I agree with you that we as viewers are meant to reflect on the blend of darkness and lightness in both of the main characters, as well as within ourselves. That's a theme Hitch repeats throughout his oeuvre.

John A

Great movie, and yes that was Hitchcock at the beginning, he is in most of his movies. People were always looking for him in his movies. This movies was the bases for the comedy "Throw Momma from the Train" (1987)

Reggie

Despite having seen this film before, I still found it riveting to the end. Robert Walker as Bruno is brilliant as the menacing and increasingly creepy villain. I just read about him and was sorry to see that he tragically died shortly after this movie was completed at the age of 32 of a fatal drug interaction of a shot his psychiatrist administered to him and alcohol. Farley Grainger is great in role as the unfortunate victim of circumstances Guy, as well as the glamorous Ruth Roman as Anne. I especially liked Pat Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock's daughter!) in the role of Anne's little sister. She was delightful. This is a very entertaining film and was quite avant guarde. For a film released in 1951, hearing a man accuse his wife of having another man's baby was shocking. This is yet another example of the filmmaking genius of Hitchcock. I would suggest "Rebecca" or "Notorious" as another movie of his to see. Great reaction Ames!