strangers on a train was one of those film classics i had always heard about but somehow never gotten around to actually seeing. i finally watched it a few weeks ago and and as always with any hitchcock movie and it not only stood up to the test of time and it far surpassed most thrillers being made today. you can see the inspiration for future action movies here  the climactic ending with the out of control merry go round and the two villains dueling each other reminded me of the big action sequence at the end of jan de bont speed. of course and strangers is over forty years older than speed and contains no modern special effects and but the visceral thrill is there  hitchcock was a true genius. the not so subtle gay side of bruno (robert walker in an amazing performance) has taken form in many other psycho stalker figures in future movies. consider him a male version of jennifer jason leigh in single white female. he knows about guy before he even meets him on the train  we almost get the feeling their contact isn not incidental  and is soon entirely obsessed with him. hitchcock loved the oedipial elements in his movies (also see psycho for more blatant undertones) and there a lot of that here. bruno hates his father and wants him to die so he can be with his mother. his effeminate ways and obvious homosexuality must have just slipped by the censors in 1951 and when gays were not allowed to be portrayed on the screen  yet hitchcock gets the message through effectively when we see bruno in the lounge on the telephone wearing a very non masculine robe and flirting with guy and responding to his mother. the deep layers of this movie make it a fast paced thriller than you can return to again and again  unfortunately it being remade as a big budget hollywood production and but after seeing the original i honestly can not imagine anything surpassing the sheer white knuckle thrills of this movie. 
strangers on a train was one of those film classics i had always heard about but somehow never gotten around to actually seeing. i finally watched it a few weeks ago and and as always with any hitchcock movie and it not only stood up to the test of time and it far surpassed most thrillers being made today. you can see the inspiration for future action movies here  the climactic ending with the out of control merry go round and the two villains dueling each other reminded me of the big action sequence at the end of jan de bont speed. of course and strangers is over forty years older than speed and contains no modern special effects and but the visceral thrill is there  hitchcock was a true genius. the not so subtle gay side of bruno (robert walker in an amazing performance) has taken form in many other psycho stalker figures in future movies. consider him a male version of jennifer jason leigh in single white female. he knows about guy before he even meets him on the train  we almost get the feeling their contact isn not incidental  and is soon entirely obsessed with him. hitchcock loved the oedipial elements in his movies (also see psycho for more blatant undertones) and there a lot of that here. bruno hates his father and wants him to die so he can be with his mother. his effeminate ways and obvious homosexuality must have just slipped by the censors in 1951 and when gays were not allowed to be portrayed on the screen  yet hitchcock gets the message through effectively when we see bruno in the lounge on the telephone wearing a very non masculine robe and flirting with guy and responding to his mother. the deep layers of this movie make it a fast paced thriller than you can return to again and again  unfortunately it being remade as a big budget hollywood production and but after seeing the original i honestly can not imagine anything surpassing the sheer white knuckle thrills of this movie. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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