Strangers on a Train

1951, dir Alfred Hitchcock w/Farley Granger, Robert Walker, 101 min, 35mm

One of the greatest ‘perfect murder’ tropes of all time – two strangers exchange crimes in an effort to misdirect discovery – comes from the Patricia Highsmith novel that Hitchcock and his collaborators adapted for this thrilling film. A foolish tennis player (Granger) meets a charming but sinister man (Walker) on a train and the rest is cinematic history.