Strangers on a Train is a thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. The thriller is a broad Genre of Literature, Film, Gaming and Television. Patricia Highsmith ( January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American Novelist known for her Psychological thrillers It was adapted as a film in 1951 by director Alfred Hitchcock. Strangers on a Train is a Film released in 1951 by Warner Bros Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE (13

The film starred Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Marion Lorne and Pat Hitchcock. Robert Walker may refer to Robert Walker (painter (1599-1658 English painter associated with 57 portraits Robert J Farley Granger (born July 1, 1925 in San Jose California) is an American Actor. Ruth Roman ( December 22, 1922 – September 9, 1999) was an American actress Leo Gratten Carroll ( October 25 1886 &ndash October 16 1972) was an English actor best known for his roles in several Hitchcock Marion Lorne MacDougall ( August 12, 1883 - May 9, 1968) was an American Emmy Award -winning Character actress. Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell (born July 7, 1928, London, UK) is a British -born American actress and

Plot summary

Architect Guy Haines wants to divorce his unfaithful wife, Miriam, in order to marry the woman he loves, Anne Faulkner. Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the termination of a Marriage. While on a train to see his wife, he meets Charles Anthony Bruno, who develops his idea to exchange murders: Bruno will kill Miriam if Guy kills Bruno's father; neither of them will have a motive, and the police will have no reason to suspect either of them. Guy does not take Bruno seriously, but Bruno kills Guy's wife while Guy is away in Mexico. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America.

Bruno informs Guy of his crime, but Guy hesitates to turn him in to the police. He realizes that Bruno could always claim Guy's complicity in the planned exchange murders, and the longer he remains silent, the more he implicates himself. This implicit guilt becomes stronger as in the coming months, Bruno makes appearances demanding that Guy honor his part of the bargain. After Bruno starts writing anonymous letters to Guy's friends and colleagues, the pressure becomes too great, and Guy murders Bruno's father.

Subsequently, Guy is consumed by guilt, whereas Bruno seeks Guy's company as if nothing had happened. He makes an uninvited appearance at Guy's wedding, causing a scene. At the same time, a private detective, who suspects Bruno of having arranged the murder of his father, establishes the connection between Bruno and Guy that began with the train ride, and suspects Bruno of Miriam's murder. Guy also becomes implicated due to his contradictions about the acquaintance with Bruno.

When Bruno falls overboard during a sailing cruise, Guy identifies so strongly with Bruno that he tries to rescue him under threat to his own life. Nevertheless, Bruno drowns, and the murder investigation is closed. Guy, however, is plagued by guilt, and confesses the double murder to Miriam's former lover. This man, however, does not condemn Guy; rather, he considers the killings as appropriate punishment for the unfaithfulness. The detective who had been investigating the murders overhears Guy's confession, however, and arrests him.

Differences between novel and film

Hitchcock's film adaptation follows the novel's plot fairly closely until Bruno demands Guy fulfill "his end of the bargain", when it makes a radical departure from the source material. In the film, Guy (played by Farley Granger) is a tennis player intending to go into politics. Farley Granger (born July 1, 1925 in San Jose California) is an American Actor. He refuses to kill Bruno's father, and threatens to go to the police. Bruno (played by Robert Walker) then targets Guy and his fiancée, leading up to a climax in which he is killed by a freak accident while trying to kill his former "friend". Robert Hudson Walker ( October 13 1918  &ndash August 28 1951) was an American Actor. The climax (from the Greek word “κλῖμαξ” ( klimax) meaning “staircase” and “ladder” or turning point of a Narrative Guy's willingness to commit murder, along with his subsequent remorse and arrest, are left out in favor of a more heroic portrayal and a happy ending. Remorse (also called compunction) is an emotional expression of personal regret felt by a person after he or she has committed an act which they deem to be shameful

The film also tones down the homosexual subtext of Guy and Bruno's relationship. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. ^[1]

Influence in popular culture

Both Highsmith's novel and Hitchcock's film have been referenced, imitated, and parodied in films such as Throw Momma from the Train, Once You Kiss a Stranger, Dead End, Bollywood's Strangers, and the Telugu film Visakha Express, and television shows such as CSI, Law & Order, Arthur, and The Simpsons. Throw Momma from the Train is a comedy film released in 1987. Dead End is a 1937 Crime drama film It is an adaptation of the Sidney Kingsley 1935 Broadway play of the same name Bollywood (बॉलीवूड بالی وڈ is the informal term popularly used for the Mumbai -based Hindi-language Film industry in India Strangers is 2007 Hindi movie directed by Anand Rai and starring Jimmy Shergill, Kay Kay Menon, Nandana Sen, Sonali Kulkarni Law & Order is an American Police procedural and Legal drama television series created by Dick Wolf. Arthur is a long-running American and Canadian educational Television series for children, that airs on PBS in the United States J. D. Robb's 2008 book, Strangers in Death, references both Highsmith's novel and Hitchcock's film as NYPSD Homicide Detective Eve Dallas attempts to solve two seemingly unrelated murders. Nora Roberts (b Eleanor Marie Robertson, October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring Maryland, USA) is a bestselling The …in Death series written by Nora Roberts under her Pseudonym J List of countries by homicide rate Homicide ( Latin homicidium, homo human being + caedere to cut kill refers to the act of killing another Eve Dallas is the main character of the In Death series a futuristic (circa 2058 AD romance-mystery series by J

Footnotes

External links

• Ron Collins, "Strangers on a Page: Highsmith & Camus"
• Strangers on a Train at the Internet Movie Database