
Strangers on a Train(1951)
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.



Barbara Stanwyck
Cheryl Draper

George Sanders
Albert Richter

Gary Merrill
Police Lt. Lawrence Mathews

Jesse White
Police Sgt. Eddie Vincent

Harry Shannon
Captain Donnelly

Claire Carleton
May - Mental Patient

Lewis Martin
Psychiatrist

Dick Elliott
Apartment Manager

Harry Tyler
Charlie

Juanita Moore
Negress - Mental Patient
Witness to Murder is a crime, drama, thriller film released in 1954 exploring themes of film noir, strangulation, witness to murder. Directed by Roy Rowland, it stars Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill. A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
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