Strangers on a Train Classic on TCM

Watch the Strangers on a Train 1951 classic movie on TCM channel tonight, at 8 p.m. ET. Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train presents us with two men from different worlds who strike up a fateful conversation during a train trip. Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is a professional tennis player with social aspirations. He’d like to marry Anne Morten (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a prominent Washington senator, but Miriam, his spiteful wife, refuses to divorce him.

Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) is an effete and emotionally unstable dilettante with a deep hatred for his wealthy father. In the course of their conversation, Bruno makes the suggestion that they exchange murders. If Guy will murder Bruno’s father, Bruno will murder Miriam. Guy dismisses Bruno’s comment as a macabre joke but soon comes to realize he is dealing with a psychopath.