Movie Monday: Strangers on a Train (1951)
Movie Mondays have covered several different genres of film, actors, and directors in the time this series has ran. However, there is one director who Movie Monday has not highlighted quick enough. That legendary director is Alfred Hitchcock. This week’s Movie Monday is all about the classic film Stranger on a Train.
The most important part of this movie is the plot. There are no superstar, celebrity actors starring in this Hitchcock classic and that really helps to keep the focus on the storyline in this movie. Another reason it was crucial to the plot of Strangers on a Train to not have any well known actors is because there are so many scenes of just talking in this film.
With all of the talking, if someone like Bette David or Humphrey Bogart had starred in this film, it would have taken away the attention from what the characters were saying. The Maltese Falcon (1941) never figured this fact out, I’m afraid to say. When a movie doesn’t have a good storyline, they cover it up with big name actors in hopes of no one noticing. Strangers on a Train didn’t need that, and Alfred Hitchcock wisely new that.
One aspect I really liked about this film was, you guessed it, the suspense! Of course, Alfred Hitchcock would be able to deliver on this feeling. While watching Strangers on a Train, you never really know how it will end. Even now when I watch it over again that suspenseful feeling is still there.
If you haven’t seen the 1951 edition of Strangers on a Train, (yes, there were several renditions of this film) be sure to watch it soon! No one can keep an audience in suspense quite like Hitchcock!
Much Love,
Sarah
2 Comments
Grandma
I want to see this movie!!!! Never heard of it before but it sounds good!!!!
admin
It is a really good film! A lot of suspense and mystery!