The first of American novelist Patricia Highsmith's works to be adapted to the big screen—by no less than the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock—Strangers on a Train is a first-rate psychological thriller and a masterpiece of film noir. When two strangers—tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger), whose wife will not grant him a divorce, and wealthy but deranged Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), who wants to be rid of his father—happen to meet on a train from Washington to New York, the conversation casually turns to a possibly perfect crime: what if each committed murder for the other? This sets in motion a dangerous series of events as hypotheticals turn into deadly reality.
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Want more? Check out Watch List: The Price of Murder. This month we pay homage to the master of the American suspense novel, Patricia Highsmith, with an illuminating new doc and three gripping film adaptations of her work.
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