"(May Whitty), a British spy posing as a governess, disappears on a train journey through the fictional European country of Bandrika. The film saw Hitchcock receive the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, the only time he won an award for his direction. Benjamin Crisler, the ""New York Times"" film critic, wrote in June 1938: ""Three unique and valuable institutions the British have that we in America have not: Magna Carta, the Tower Bridge and Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest director of screen melodramas in the world."" David O. Selznick signed Hitchcock to a seven-year contract beginning"
"the idea of Hitchcock's sadism,"" but ""we were [only] up there two or three minutes at the outside... My father wasn't ever sadistic. The only sadistic part was I never got the hundred dollars."" ""Strangers on a Train"" previewed on March 5, 1951 at the Huntington Park Theatre, with Alma, Jack Warner, Whitfield Cook and Barbara Keon in the Hitchcock party and it won a prize from the Screen Directors Guild. It premiered in New York on July 3, marking the reopening of the extensively remodeled Strand Theatre as the Warner Theatre, and in a dozen cities around the country."
"their partnership, as Hitchcock was known to have an affinity for special effects himself. The pair's partnership kicked off with Hitchcock's 1951 ""Strangers on a Train,"" which garnered Burks his first Oscar nomination, and spanned over 13 years concluding with ""Marnie"" in 1964. The pair's collaborations include: ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), ""I Confess"" (1953)"", Dial M For Murder"" (1954, 3-D, Warner Color)"", Rear Window"" (1954, Technicolor)"", To Catch a Thief"" (1955, VistaVision, Technicolor)"", The Trouble with Harry"" (1955, VistaVision, Technicolor)"", The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1956, VistaVision, Technicolor)"", The Wrong Man"" (1957)"", Vertigo"" (1958, VistaVision, Technicolor)"", North by"
"the two men struggling, the accidentally shot attendant, the out-of-control merry-go-round, the crawling under the moving merry-go-round to disable it — are present in Crispin's account, though he received no screen credit for it. In Raymond Chandler's second draft script — which Hitchcock ceremoniously dropped into the wastebasket while daintily holding his nose — the final shot is Guy Haines, institutionalized, bound in a straitjacket. According to Warner Bros records, the film earned $1,788,000 domestically and $1,144,000 foreign. Upon its release in 1951, ""Strangers on a Train"" received mixed reviews. ""Variety"" praised it, writing: ""Performance-wise, the cast comes through strongly."
"for 23 performances, but it starred Patricia Hitchcock as Violet, and brought Cook to the attention of her father, Alfred Hitchcock. In 1945, Cook headed to Hollywood, where he was partnered with Ann Morrison Chapin on a trio of film scripts that starred June Allyson. He made his debut with the romantic comedy ""The Sailor Takes a Wife"" (1945) and followed with the psychological drama ""The Secret Heart"" (1946) and the wartime romance ""High Barbaree"" (1947). Cook then worked with Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, on ""Stage Fright"" (1950) and ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951). Cook's treatment for ""Strangers"
"Stranger on the Run Stranger on the Run is a 1967 American made-for-television western drama film directed by Don Siegel and starring Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter and Michael Parks. In some countries it premiered in cinemas. Former inmate and alcoholic Ben Chamberlain (Fonda) comes to a town inquiring about a woman. When she is found dead, Sheriff McKay (Parks), at the suggestion of his friend Hotchkiss (Dan Duryea), organises a human hunting party, incorrectly thinking that Chamberlain is the culprit. Chamberlain must cross the desert and reach the border. McKay gets there before him. Chamberlain comes across a homesteader (Baxter)"
"Other Strangers"", the character Johnny (Harry Guardino) is more interested in watching ""Spellbound"" on television than his own wife Wilma (Anne Meara). Also parodied in the 1977 Mel Brooks film ""High Anxiety"". Biographies Spellbound (1945 film) Spellbound is a 1945 American film noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel ""The House"
"the stage name Laura Elliot. In 1955, she began working with a press agent in Hollywood, Walter Winslow Lewis III (aka ""Bud""). It was Bud who suggested that she use the nickname with her maiden name and changed the ""C"" to a ""K"". They later married and had four children. Rogers began work under the names Laura Elliott and Laura Elliot for Paramount Pictures. She appeared in movies such as ""Special Agent"", ""Samson and Delilah"", ""Silver City"", ""Paid in Full"", ""Two Lost Worlds"", and, in perhaps her best-known film role, Alfred Hitchcock's ""Strangers on a Train"", playing Miriam, the scheming,"
"was adapted for the radio program ""Lux Radio Theatre"" on two occasions: on December 3, 1951, with Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy, and Ray Milland, and on April 12, 1954, with Virginia Mayo, Dana Andrews, and Robert Cummings. In 2015, it was announced that director David Fincher and writer Gillian Flynn are working on a remake for Hitchcock's film, retitled as ""Strangers"", which is said to be a ""modern take"" on the story. It was also adapted into the episode ""One False Step"" of the TV series ""77 Sunset Strip"" in 1958. The film has also been the inspiration for other"
"tramp Quigley (Hugh Sinclair) for a bet. However Quigley is secretly an English nobleman on the run for a murder he did not commit. Events ecalate when a cousin of the jilted Wilfred hires a pair of hoodlums (Noah Beery & David Burns) to bump off Quigley. Strangers on Honeymoon Strangers on Honeymoon is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair and Noah Beery, based on a 1926 novel by Edgar Wallace. Much of the film takes place in Canada. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures at the Lime Grove Studios"
"in front of a camera with his fingers around the neck of a bust of daughter Patricia; the photo found its way into newspapers nationwide. He was also photographed adding the letter ""L"" to ""Strangers"" on the official studio poster for the film, thus changing the word to ""Stranglers"". One studio press release gave rise to a myth that still lingers on today. Hitchcock and Patricia both were afraid of heights, and father offered daughter a hundred dollars to ride the Ferris wheel — only to order the power cut, leaving her in the dark at the very top of"
"Walker was buried at Lindquist's Washington Heights Memorial Park in Ogden, Utah. Robert Walker (actor, born 1918) Robert Hudson Walker (October 13, 1918 – August 28, 1951) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), which was released shortly before his death. He started in youthful boy-next-door roles, often as a World War II soldier. One of these roles was opposite his first wife, Jennifer Jones, in the war epic ""Since You Went Away"" (1944). He also played Jerome Kern in ""Till the Clouds Roll By"". Twice divorced by"
"and they start to develop a connection, but this is quickly cut short when the posse arrives. Stranger on the Run Stranger on the Run is a 1967 American made-for-television western drama film directed by Don Siegel and starring Henry Fonda, Anne Baxter and Michael Parks. In some countries it premiered in cinemas. Former inmate and alcoholic Ben Chamberlain (Fonda) comes to a town inquiring about a woman. When she is found dead, Sheriff McKay (Parks), at the suggestion of his friend Hotchkiss (Dan Duryea), organises a human hunting party, incorrectly thinking that Chamberlain is the culprit. Chamberlain must cross"
"Wagon."" The title, chosen from an audience poll, was favored by Hughes. During those two years, many wealthy persons involved in the entertainment industry of Hollywood had screening rooms and viewed the film, which led to further employment of its cast and crew, Alfred Hitchcock cast Farley Granger in ""Rope"" (1948) upon seeing this film and Humphrey Bogart, greatly impressed by Ray's direction, hired him to direct his independent production ""Knock on Any Door"" (1949) at Columbia Pictures. Farley Granger recounted that he was at Saul and Ethel Chaplin's house for a party. Ray had also been invited and just"
"Stranger on the Third Floor Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 RKO Radio Pictures film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, and Margaret Tallichet, and featuring Elisha Cook Jr.. It was written by Frank Partos. Modern research has shown that Nathanael West wrote the final version of the screenplay, but was uncredited. ""Stranger on the Third Floor"" is often cited as the first ""true"" film noir of the classic period (1940–1959), though other films that fit the genre such as ""Rebecca"" and ""They Drive by Night"" were released earlier. Nonetheless, it has many"
"films such as, ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), ""Dial M For Murder"" (1954) with Ray Milland, ""Rear Window"" (1954) and ""Vertigo"" (1958). Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include ""The Night of the Hunter"" (1955)—Charles Laughton's only film as director—and Orson Welles's crime thriller ""Touch of Evil"" (1958). Director Michael Powell's ""Peeping Tom"" (1960) featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcock's classic films of the 1950s, he produced ""Psycho"" (1960) about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner and taxidermist. J. Lee Thompson's ""Cape Fear"" (1962), with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time"
"The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog is a 1927 British silent film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, and Ivor Novello. Hitchcock's third feature film, it was released on 14 February 1927 in London and on 10 June 1928 in New York City. Based on the novel ""The Lodger"" by Marie Belloc Lowndes and the play ""Who Is He?"" co-written by Belloc Lowndes, the film is about the hunt for a ""Jack the Ripper""-like serial killer in London. A young blonde woman,"
"None of her productions at the Whitehall had runs shorter than 125 nights. After appearing in a couple of Vitaphone shorts, including ""Success"" (1931) starring Jack Haley, she made her feature film debut in her late 60s in ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), directed by Alfred Hitchcock. From 1952-55, she was seen as perpetually confused junior high school English teacher Mrs. Gurney on ""Mister Peepers"". From 1957-58, she co-starred with Joan Caulfield in the NBC sitcom ""Sally"" in the role of an elderly widow who happens to be the co-owner of a department store. Although afraid of live television, declaring"
"Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film) Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Norman Krasna, and starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery. It also features Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, and Lucile Watson. While Hitchcock later claimed he directed the film—the only pure comedy he made in America—as a favor to Lombard, the files at RKO Radio Pictures show that Hitchcock himself pursued the project. Ann (Carole Lombard) and David Smith (Robert Montgomery) are a married couple living in New York City who, though in love, have disagreements that"
"divorce her husband, and in turn Margo shares her hatred for her domineering mother. They jokingly suggest performing a murder on each other's behalf. But all too soon the joke becomes reality. Once You Meet a Stranger Once You Meet a Stranger is a 1996 American made-for-television thriller film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace and a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 classic film ""Strangers on a Train"". In the remake the genders of the principal characters have been switched from male to female (Guy Haines became Sheila Gaines and Anthony Bruno became Margo Anthony). It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Theresa"
"Robert Walker (actor, born 1918) Robert Hudson Walker (October 13, 1918 – August 28, 1951) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), which was released shortly before his death. He started in youthful boy-next-door roles, often as a World War II soldier. One of these roles was opposite his first wife, Jennifer Jones, in the war epic ""Since You Went Away"" (1944). He also played Jerome Kern in ""Till the Clouds Roll By"". Twice divorced by 30, he suffered from alcoholism and mental illness, which were exacerbated by"
"doors as a full-time cinema on August 15, 1994. This was mostly due to water damage to the basement caused by the construction of the Hollywood Subway Red Line and structural damage caused by the 1994 Northridge earthquake. To date, the balcony sections remain closed off due to structure safety issues. The theater has since been designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. In the '50s, a young Carol Burnett was working as an usherette when the theater was showing Alfred Hitchcock's ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951). Having already seen the film, she advised two patrons arriving during the last 10"
"Strangers on Honeymoon Strangers on Honeymoon is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair and Noah Beery, based on a 1926 novel by Edgar Wallace. Much of the film takes place in Canada. It was made by Gainsborough Pictures at the Lime Grove Studios in Shepherd's Bush. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernö Metzner. Wallace's son (Bryan Edgar Wallace) also contributed to the film's screenplay, along with 5 other writers. Young orphan October (Constance Cummings) flees from an arranged marriage with Wilfred (James Arnold), to wed gentleman"
"peak of his craft, with films such as ""Strangers on a Train"" (1951), ""Dial M for Murder"" (1954), ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""To Catch a Thief"" (1955), ""The Man Who Knew Too Much"" (1956), ""Vertigo"" (1958), and ""North by Northwest"" (1959), with James Stewart and Grace Kelly starring in three each. The Bengali Indian director Satyajit Ray, who began his career in the 1950s, was also at the peak of his career during this decade, with films such as ""The Apu Trilogy"" (1955–1959), ""Jalsaghar"" (1958), and ""Parash Pathar"" (1958). 1950s in film The decade of the 1950s in film involved many"
"film ""M"" (1931), directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre (in his first film role) as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing ""Foreign Correspondent"" (1940), the Oscar-winning ""Rebecca"" (1940), ""Suspicion"" (1941), ""Saboteur"" (1942) and ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), which was Hitchcock's own personal favorite. Notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include ""The Spiral Staircase"" (1946) and ""Sorry, Wrong Number"" (1948). In the late 1940s, Hitchcock added Technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales. Hitchcock's first Technicolor film was ""Rope"" (1948). He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic"
"Forest Hills. A pivotal scene in Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film ""Strangers on a Train"", in which the main character (played by Farley Granger) is a professional tennis player, features a lengthy championship game at the Club, with distinctive shots of the surrounding community. The Tennis Stadium, which hosted numerous music concerts including The Beatles after the U.S. Open departed for Flushing Meadows, resumed hosting music concerts during the summer of 2013 when the British rock band Mumford & Sons played there to an overflowing crowd. Stadium officials have said they will now host as many as six music or cultural"
"when the policeman's bullet hits the ride operator and sends the carousel into its frenzied hyper-drive. Critic Jack Sullivan had kinder words for Tiomkin's score for ""Strangers"" than did biographer Spoto: ""[S]o seamlessly and inevitably does it fit the picture's design that it seems like an element of Hitchcock's storyboards"", he writes. It is a score that ""goes largely uncelebrated."" With a release scheduled for early summer, the studio press agents swung into high gear early in 1951. Hitchcock, promotionally photographed many times over the years strangling various actresses and other women — some one-handed, others two — found himself"
"the simple melodrama with ordinary, naturalistic backgrounds; but too much of it has the heavy, corpulent quality that made ""Rope"" and in particular ""Under Capricorn"" so lifeless and unreal."" Trade papers called the film a ""notable box office attraction"" in British cinemas in 1950. According to Warner Bros' accounts the film earned $1,012,000 domestically and $896,000 foreign. Stage Fright (1950 film) Stage Fright is a 1950 British thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. Others in the cast include Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock's daughter Pat"
"The film went over budget by $1 million but was a moderate success at the box office. The Strange Woman The Strange Woman is a 1946 American drama film noir thriller film and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer starring Hedy Lamarr, George Sanders and Louis Hayward. Originally released by United Artists, the film is now in the public domain. In Bangor, Maine in 1824, a cruel young girl named Jenny Hager pushes a terrified Ephraim Poster into a river knowing he cannot swim. She is prepared to let him drown until Judge Saladine (Alan Napier) happens by, at which point"
"Foreign Correspondent (film) Foreign Correspondent (a.k.a. Imposter and Personal History) is a 1940 American spy thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of an American reporter who tries to expose enemy spies in Britain who are involved in a fictional continent-wide conspiracy in the prelude to World War II. It stars Joel McCrea and features 19-year old Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Bassermann, and Robert Benchley, along with Edmund Gwenn. ""Foreign Correspondent"" was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production after leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 (the first was ""Rebecca"") and had an unusually large number of"
"Three Strangers Three Strangers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama directed by Jean Negulesco, written by John Huston and Howard Koch, starring Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Peter Lorre, and featuring Joan Lorring and Alan Napier. Crystal Shackleford (Geraldine Fitzgerald) lures two strangers, solicitor Jerome K. Arbutny (Sydney Greenstreet) and charming and erudite drunkard Johnny West (Peter Lorre) to her London flat on Chinese New Year in 1938 because of her belief that if three strangers make the same wish to an idol of Kwan Yin, Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny, the wish will be granted. Since"
"found the film ""quite funny, but the story was rather confusing."" Number Seventeen Number Seventeen is a 1932 thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on a stage play by J. Jefferson Farjeon, and starring John Stuart, Anne Grey and Leon M. Lion. The film is about a group of criminals who committed a jewel robbery and put their money in an old house over a railway leading to the English Channel, the film's title being derived from the house's street number. An outsider stumbles onto this plot and intervenes with the help of a neighbour, a police officer's daughter."
"on June 9, 1941 with Carole Lombard and Bob Hope. ""The Screen Guild Theater"" next adapted it on February 8, 1942 with Errol Flynn and Lana Turner, again on December 14, 1942 with Joan Bennett, Robert Young, and Ralph Bellamy, and once more on January 1, 1945 with Preston Foster, Louise Albritton, and Stuart Erwin. On January 30, 1949, it was adapted to ""Screen Director's Playhouse"" with Robert Montgomery, Mary Jane Croft, and Carlton Young. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941 film) Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 1941 American screwball comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Norman Krasna,"