Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a train [videorecording] / [presented by] Warner Bros. Pictures ; screen play by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Edition: Two-disc special ed.
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004]
ISBN: 0790789981
Description: 2 videodiscs (204 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s): Murder Drama.
Homicide Drama.
Feature films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.).
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Credits: Director of photography, Robert Burks ; film editor, William Ziegler ; original music, Dimitri Tiomkin.
Performers: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll.
Target Audience: MPAA rating: PG.
Notes: Closed-captioned; English or French soundtracks; optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
DVD release of the 1951 motion picture.
Region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono; dual-layer format.
Special features include: commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Highsmith, biographer Andrew Wilson, and others; excerpt from an interview with Alfred Hitchcock; theatrical trailer; Strangers on a train : a Hitchock classic (making-of documentary); The Hitchcocks on hitch (featurette); Strangers on a train : the victim's P.O.V. (featurette); Strangers on a train : an appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (featurette); Alfred Hitchcock's historical meeting (vintage newsreel).
Contents: Disc 1. Final release version (101 min.) -- Disc 2. Preview version (103 min.).
Summary: Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.
