# Strangers on a Train (1951)

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**Runtime**: 101 min
**Genres**: Crime, Thriller, Drama
**Directed by**: Alfred Hitchcock
**Written by**: Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde
**Starring**: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Kasey Rogers

> *It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with shrieking excitement!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A train rumbles through the night, a lighter sparks. 
Two men from different worlds collide, a proposal is made, a tennis racket lies still. 
Hitchcock finds tension in the most ordinary of encounters.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, dread, paranoid

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