This week's podcast covers Alfred Hitchcock's classic murder swap thriller, Strangers on a Train. A tennis player has a chance meeting on a train that suddenly turns his world upside down.
***SPOILER ALERT*** We do talk about this movie in its entirety, so if you plan on watching it, we suggest you watch it before listening to our takes.
A Warner Brothers Picture. Released on June 30, 1951. Produced and Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde and Whitfield Cook based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith.Starring Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Patricia Hitchcock, Kasey Rogers, Leo G. Carroll, and Marion Lorne. Cinematography by Robert Burks. Edited by William Ziegler. Music by Dimitri Tiomkin.
Ranking: 7 out of 52. Ranking movies is a reductive parlor game. It’s also fun. And it’s a good way to frame a discussion. We aggregated over 70 ranked lists from critics, fans, and magazines Strangers on a Train got 2,722 ranking points.