Strangers on a Train (BD)

Strangers on a Train (BD)Strange thing about this trip. So much occurs in pairs. Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. Now look at how Alfred Hitchcock reinforces the duality of human nature. The more you watch, the more you'll see. "Isn't it a fascinating design?" the Master of Suspense often asked. Actually, it's doubly fascinating.

siren-wailing pursuits and frenzied shoot-outs

Kim Cattrall

and Batman & Robin

" "This Boy's Life")

sister Alexandra (Glenda Jackson) is determined to become the orders new leader

Before he gained his fame directing cinematic masterpieces like The Manchurian Candidate and Seven Days in May

Directed by legendary Oscar-honoree George Pal ("Puppetoons" shorts)

many involving an aces-high ensemble (Charles Bickford

An extra treat for film buffs: Fairbanks' hilarious impersonations of John Barrymore

who exiled Clio and her mother to Paris years earlier

and features starlet Eleanor Boardman

One suggestion: haul sisters Penny and Jane and other examples of untamed youth before a judge in the rural South and sentence them to pay for their infractions by picking cotton on a labor farm