Monday, November 9, 2009
Strangers worth meeting
Posted by Matt Brunson on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:15 PM
The Main Library’s fall film series, “The Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock Classics,” continues tonight (Monday, Nov. 9) with a screening of another popular offering from the portly genius. 1951's Strangers on a Train is certainly one of the director's most diabolical films, a startling piece in which a tennis player (Farley Granger) meets a peculiar man (Robert Walker) during a fateful train ride and dismisses the stranger's suggestion that they "exchange" murders. It's only after the athlete's loathsome wife turns up dead that he realizes the plan was no joke — and that he's expected to live up to his end of the bargain by murdering the other man's domineering father. Walker's creepy performance ranks among the best found in any Hitchcock film, and several of the set pieces — Walker's immobile presence among an animated tennis crowd; a murder reflected in the victim's eyeglasses; the shocking merry-go-round finale — represent the filmmaker in top form.
Strangers on a Train will be screened at 7 p.m. this evening at ImaginOn, 300 E. 7th St. Admission is free. For more info, call 704-416-0252.
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