Strangers on a Train
(DVD) 

Title from container.

Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.

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.

Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll.

Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.

MPAA rating: PG ; some violence and tension.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.

English or French dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.