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Title "Strangers on a train" [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; screenplay by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde.

Imprint Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004], c1951.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Stranger    ---  Available
Edition Full screen version ; Special ed.
Description 2 videodiscs (204 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Note Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
Special features: Disc 1: final release version with commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano, Patricia Highsmith biographer Andrew Wilson and several Hitchcock colleagues, Aficionados and family members, plus the suspense master himself in an interview excerpt; theatrical trailer; Disc 2: preview version uncovered in 1991 and theatrically issued in 1996; new making-of documentary Strangers on a Train: a Hitchock Classic, with Farley Granger, Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, film historian Richard Schiekel and other Hitchcock family members, colleagues and Aficionados recalling the making of a suspense landmark; 3 intriguing featurettes: The Hitchcocks on Hitch, Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V. and Strangers on a Train: an appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan; Alfred Hitchcock's historical meeting vintage newsreel.
Cast Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll.
Summary This film is about two strangers who accidentally meet and plan to trade murders. The screenplay of Patricia Highsmith's novel was adapted by Raymond Chandler.
Audience MPAA rating: PG.
System Details DVD, region 1, Dolby Digital mono; dual-layer format.
Language English or French dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Subject Railroad travel -- Drama.
Murderers -- Drama.
Feature films.
DVD-Video discs.
Detective and mystery films.
Added Author Bogdanovich, Peter, 1939-2022.
Granger, Farley, 1925-2011.
Walker, Robert, 1918-1951.
Roman, Ruth, 1922-1999
Warner Home Video (Firm)
Added Title Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a train"
ISBN 0790789981
Standard No. 085393197520
Music No. 31975 Warner Home Video

 
    
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