Strangers on a train
(DVD) 

Adaptation by Whitfield Cook from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.

DVD release of the 1951 motion picture.

Region 1, full screen presentation; Dolby Digital mono; dual-layer format.

Special features include: commentary by director Peter Bogdanovich, Patricia Highsmith, biographer Andrew Wilson, and others; excerpt from an interview with Alfred Hitchcock; theatrical trailer; Strangers on a train : a Hitchock classic (making-of documentary); The Hitchcocks on hitch (featurette); Strangers on a train : the victim's P.O.V. (featurette); Strangers on a train : an appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (featurette); Alfred Hitchcock's historical meeting (vintage newsreel).

Director of photography, Robert Burks ; film editor, William Ziegler ; original music, Dimitri Tiomkin.

Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll.

Guy Haines, a tennis star who hates his wife, is approached on a train by a stranger, Bruno Anthony, who hates his father. Anthony offers a plan: each could kill the other's victim. No motive, no clue would link the two murders save the casual meeting of strangers on a train. Haines doesn't take the plan seriously, however, until his wife is suddenly murdered, and Anthony appears to demand that Haines keep his part of the bargain.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD.

Closed-captioned; English or French soundtracks; optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.