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Strangers on a Train (1951)
Nominated for the Academy Award for black and white cinematography.
One man hates his wife. The other man hates his father. So one day, at a chance meeting on a train, one man proposes to the other that they take care of each other's problems by murdering those who cause them the most grief. There would be no way for the police to find each killer's identity as there would appear to be no motive.
The film is based from a novel by the same name, but differs greatly from the plot. Even the script that was written was barely followed as most of the film was shot around Hitchcock's outlines and notes. The final effect is perfectly haunting and chilling. There was a pre-release copy of the film found fairly recently in England.
In this longer version, there is a more homosexually driven opening conversation between the two men and an alternate ending, but the footage is hard to find.
(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
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