Strangers on a Train (1951)

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[Goffe]

One of the tensest and thrilling films of the master. The premise is great, the romantic pair is not a damsel in distress and the villain is deliciously insane.  The last 30 minutes, including the amazing climax, is at least top 5 most tense sequences directed by Hitchcock. I loved the happy yet tragic ending, conveying a sense of catastrophe that very few directors are able to duplicate. 90/100

 

Hitchcock's Marathon

 

100/100

1 Rear Window 

2 The Lady Vanishes

3 Frenzy

 

90/100 

4 I Confess 

5 Lifeboat

6 Strangers on a Train

7 Psycho 

 

80/100

8 Stage Fright

9 Notorious

10 Rope

11 The Wrong Man

12 Young and Innocent

13 The Birds 

14 Waltzes from Vienna 

 

70/100

15 Vertigo

16 The 39 Steps 

17 The Skin Game

18 Family Plot 

19 Dial M for Murder 

20 The Lodger

 

60/100

21 North by Northwest 

22 Undder Capricorn

23 The Man Who Knew Too Much

24 To Catch a Thief 

25 The Paradine Case 

26 Saboteur

27 The Manxman 

 

50/100

28 Blackmail

29 Rich and Strange

30 Foreign Correspondent

31 Suspicion

32 Downhill 

 

40/100

33 Shadow of a Doubt

34 Secret Agent 

35 The Ring

36 Spellbound

 

30/100

37 Murder!

38 Easy Virtue

39 Sabotage

40 The Farmer's Wife

41 The Pleasure Garden

 

20/100

42 Champagne

43 Juno and the Paycock 

 

10/100

44 Jamaica Inn 

45 Number Seventeen