Summary
This film is about two strangers who accidentally meet and plan to trade murders. The screenplay of Patricia Highsmith's novel was adapted by Raymond Chandler.
Contents
Disc 1. Final release version (101 min.)Disc 2. Preview version (103 min.).
Additional Information
Subjects |
Murder
-- Drama.
Passenger trains -- Drama. Feature films. Fiction films. Film adaptations. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
Publisher | Burbank, CA :Distributed by Warner Home Video,2004 |
Edition | Full screen version, Two-disc special ed. |
Other Titles | Strangers on a train. Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a train |
Contributors |
Chandler, Raymond,
1888-1959, screenwriter. Ormonde, Czenzi, 1906-2004, screenwriter. Hitchcock, Alfred, 1899-1980, director. Granger, Farley, actor. Roman, Ruth, 1922-1999, actor. Walker, Robert, 1918-1951, actor. Carroll, Leo G., 1886-1972, actor. Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979, composer. Highsmith, Patricia, 1921-1995. Strangers on a train. Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), production company. Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher. |
Participants/Performers |
Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll. |
Other Contributors |
Director of photography, Robert Burks ; editor, William Ziegler ; music, Dimitri Tiomkin. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: PG. |
Language |
English French Spanish In English or French; with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. |
Notes |
Title from container. At head of title: Alfred Hitchcock's. Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith. DVD release of the 1951 motion picture. 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). |
System Details |
DVD; region 1; full presentation; dual-layer format; Dolby digital. |
Description |
2 videodiscs (204 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
ISBN | 0790789981 9780790789989 |
Other | Classic View |