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Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train

on BBC One London

The first of four films for the festive season from the master of suspense, tonight starring
Farley Granger Ruth Roman
Robert Walker with Leo G. Carroll
On a train from Washington to New York, tennis star Guy Haines is provoked into conversation by a rich - and obviously neurotic - young man, Bruno Anthony. Guy wants to divorce his wife,
Bruno hates his father. Half jokingly Bruno suggests the perfect crime - they will each commit the other's murder.... Hitchcock's classic thriller, a tense and ingenious murder story, was based on Patricia Highsmith 's novel and co-scripted by Raymond Chandler.
Screenplay by RAYMOND CHANDLER and CZENZI ORMONDE From the novel by PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
Adapted by WHITFIELD COOK
Directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK
(The next Hitchcock film is Suspicion tomorrow 11.40)
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Contributors

Unknown:
Farley Granger
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Ruth Roman
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Robert Walker
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Leo G. Carrou
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Guy Haines
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Bruno Anthony.
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Patricia Highsmith
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Raymond Chandler.
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Raymond Chandler
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Czenzi Ormonde
Novel By:
Patricia Highsmith
Adapted By:
Whitfield Cook
Directed By:
Alfred Hitchcock
Guy Haines:
Farley Granger
Anne Morton:
Ruth Roman
Bruno Anthony:
Robert Walker
Senator Morton:
Leo G. Carroll
Barbara Morton:
Patricia Hitchcock
Miriam:
Laura Elliott
Mrs Anthony:
Marion Lorne
Mr Anthony:
Jonathan Hale
Captain Turley:
Howard St John
Prof Collins:
John Brown

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