Strangers on a Train (1951 Alfred Hitchcock & prod)

From Patricia Highsmith novel, published a year earlier, adapted by Whitfield Cook, written by Raymond Chandler (unsatisfactory, apparently) and Czenzi Ormonde, film unravels like a bad dream in which elegant psychopath Robert Walker attempts to trade murders with Farley Granger. Good cast includes Marion Lorne as mother, Leo G Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Ruth Roman, Kasey Rogers (Granger's wife) and Norma Varden (strangulee at dinner party). Walker was dead of an alcohol-drug overdose inside a year.

Shot by Robert Burks and scored by Dmitri Tiomkin. Several outstanding moments including a bizarre fight on an out-of-control merry-go-round which is both funny and frightening at the same time.