Strangers on a Train (1951)




Farley Granger - Strangers on a Train




On a train from Washington to New York, tennis star Guy Haines is provoked into conversation by a rich - and obviously neurotic - young man, Bruno Anthony. Guy wants to divorce his wife, Bruno hates his father. Half jokingly Bruno suggests the perfect crime - they will each commit the other's murder.


Books with substantial mentioning of Strangers on a Train

David Greven
Intimate violence, Hitchcock, sex, and queer theory
Oxford, 2017

David Humbert
Violence in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, A study in mimesis
East Lansing, 2017

Mark William Padilla
Classical myth in four films of Alfred Hitchcock
Lanham, Maryland, 2016

David Thomson
Moments that made the movies
London, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Robert J. Yanal
Hitchcock as philosopher
Jefferson, N.C., 2005

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Robert A. Harris & Michael S. Lasky
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock
Secaucus, NJ, 1979

Donald Spoto
The Art of Alfred Hitchcock, Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures
New York, 1976

Albert J. LaValley (editor)
Focus on Hitchcock
Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1972

Robin Wood
Hitchcock's Films
New York, 1969

Books with an entry on Strangers on a Train

Michael F. Keaney
Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 2003

Articles on Strangers on a Train

Robert J. Corber, Hitchcock's Washington. Spectatorship, Ideology, and the "Homosexual Menace" in Strangers on a Train, in: Jonathan Freedman and Richard Millington (eds.), Hitchcock's America, New York; Oxford, 1999

Brian T. Edwards, Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock after the American Century, Circulation and nonreturn in The American Scene and Strangers on a Train, in: Susan M. Griffin and Alan Nadel (eds.), The Men Who Knew Too Much, New York, 2012