Strangers on a Train

This Hitchcock masterpiece ably transforms a highly improbable situation into a series of logical events which inexorably lead to murder. A psychopathic man plans what he thinks is an 'exchange murder' with a stranger he meets on a train... Actually, it's doubly fascinating. Hitchcock left behind two versions of Strangers on a Train. The original version (Side A) is an all-time thriller classic. A recently found longer prerelease British print (Side B) offers "a startling amplification of Bruno's flamboyance, his homoerotic attraction to Guy and his psychotic personality," according to Bill Desowitz of Film Comment. The laying bare of Bruno's hidden nature, along with the great set pieces (head-turning tennis match, disintegrating carousel) and suspense as only Hitchcock can deliver, makes for a first-class trip.