An Arkansas hobo becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?
Elia Kazan; Andy Griffith; Patricia Neal; Anthony Franciosa
Physical Description
DVD (length: 2:05:00) ; not original
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An Arkansas hobo becomes an overnight media sensation. But as he becomes drunk with fame and power, will he ever be exposed as the fraud he has become?
From sleeve:
"A tennis star plays a match with murder!
Isn't there someone, somewhere, you sometimes wish were dead? Someone who beat you, or betrayed you, or made you mad enough to kill? You wouldn't do it, of course. It's just a figur of speech.
But suppose you met a stranger who offered to do …
From sleeve:
"A tennis star plays a match with murder!
Isn't there someone, somewhere, you sometimes wish were dead? Someone who beat you, or betrayed you, or made you mad enough to kill? You wouldn't do it, of course. It's just a figur of speech.
But suppose you met a stranger who offered to do your killing for you?
Alfred Hitchcock, the master craftsman of our darkest fantasies, explores this nightmarish possibility in 'Strangers on a Train" -- and the perfect crime turns into a trap with no escape.
Farley Granger plays Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his estranged wife and wants to be free to marry another woman. On a train, he meets Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), who hates his father. Bruno has a chillingly simple plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clues, nothing to link Guy and Bruno but a casual meeting of strangers on a train. Guy laughs it off. But soon his wife is horribly murdered. And Bruno shows up to demand that Guy keep his part of the bargain.
'Strangers on a Train' is one of Hitchcock's most diabolical thrillers, a tale of dreadful possibilities twisted tightly with nerve-wracking suspense and macabre humor and brought to a spectacular conclusion aboard a merry-go-round spinning wildly out of control.
Nobody does it like Hitchcock -- and 'Strangers on a Train' will carry you on one of the most frightening rides of your life."
Directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by Raymond Chandler, Whitfield Cook, and Czenzi Ormonde
Cinematography by Robert Burks
Edited by William H. Ziegler
With Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, et al.
Notes
Contains original packaging : 1 black plastic case and 1 cardboard sleeve with colour graphics and information about content
From slipcover:
"Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received Oscar nominations for Best Actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at…
From slipcover:
"Elizabeth Taylor and Katharine Hepburn each received Oscar nominations for Best Actress in this gripping adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play. Beautiful Catherine Holly (Elizabeth Taylor) is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Catherine's aunt, Violet Venable (Katharine Hepburn), tries to influence Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomerry Clift), a young neurosurgeon, to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of sodium pentothal, Dr. Cukrowicz discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true. He then confronts Violet about her own involvement in her son's lurid death."
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Produced by Sam Spiegel
Screenplay by Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams
Cinematography by Jack Hildyard
Edited by William Hornbeck and Thomas Stanford
With Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, et al.
Notes
Contains original packaging : 1 cardboard slipcover with colour graphics and description of the film
