
Dial M for Murder(1954)
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.


“It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with shrieking excitement!”
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.

Farley Granger
Guy Haines

Ruth Roman
Anne Morton

Robert Walker
Bruno Antony

Leo G. Carroll
Sen. Morton

Patricia Hitchcock
Barbara Morton

Kasey Rogers
Miriam Haines

Marion Lorne
Mrs. Antony

Jonathan Hale
Mr. Antony

Howard St. John
Police Capt. Turley

John Brown
Prof. Collins
Strangers on a Train is a crime, thriller film released in 1951 exploring themes of infidelity, island, based on novel or book, perfect crime, psychopath, obsession. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker. 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.
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