However, Guy finds himself the prime suspect in his wife’s murder. Discovering that Anthony is a psychopath, Guy finds out that he murdered his wife and now accepts Guy to hold up his end of their bargain. On a train, Guy meets Bruno Anthony and unwittingly sets off a chain of events. Warner Brothers wanted to use Chandler’s name to get movie goers into the theaters. A brief synopsis: Tennis star Guy Haines is outraged that his wife is refusing to finalize their divorce so that he can marry the senator’s daughter. Raymond Chandler’s name appears on the official list of screenplay writers but after Chandler’s second draft of the script didn’t sit well with Hitchcock, the two parted ways. Czenzi Ormonde, Alma Reville, and Barbara Keon wrote the screenplay.
It stars Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Leo G. The movie does not incorporate everything from Highsmith’s book. Strangers was released in 1951 and is adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s debut thriller of the same name. “The film where Hitchcock first discovered America.8. “Hitchcock is perverse enough to suggest that the murderer’s bitter clarity is in greater touch with life than is the feeble virtue of the town’s residents.” “Hitchcock's first indisputable masterpiece.” With support from the Robert Jolin Osborne Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. LOUIS), and Hitchcock’s wife (and closest collaborator) Alma Reville. Starring Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Henry Travers, Macdonald Carey, Patricia CollingeĪs wealthy widows keep disappearing, victims of the so-called “Merry Widow Murderer,” Joseph Cotten's lovable Uncle Charlie visits niece Teresa Wright in her average American town – a cozy family scene, until he’s heard whistling “The Merry Widow Waltz.” Often claimed as Hitchcock’s own favorite, this is perhaps his ultimate evocation of evil nesting among the mundane (and, along with PSYCHO, only one of two Hitchcocks with a villain as central character), with authentic Americana provided by screenwriters Thornton Wilder (OUR TOWN), Sally Benson (MEET ME IN ST.
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