Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train is a film released in 1951 by Warner Bros. The film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film starred Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Kasey Rogers and Patricia Hitchcock. The movie was based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley. Detective novelist Raymond Chandler wrote an early draft of the screenplay.

Parodies

Hitchcock's film was the basis for the comedy Throw Momma From the Train (1987), starring Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito.

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Throw Momma From the Train - 1987 - Billy Crystal - Danny DeVito

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This method of comitting murder has been referenced in several television series. ', in the episode A Night at the Movies, investigated a crime similar to, the plot of Strangers on a Train. The idea itself for the crime came from Strangers on a Train. In the episode, two women meet at an arthouse movie theater, one has a sexual abuse suit against a dentist, the other has a suit against her boss. The two apparently agree to "solve each others problems." One of the women kills the dentist that sexually abused the woman, but the other woman doesn't hold up her end of the bargain.

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Another crime drama series, Law and Order, used Strangers on a Train as the insipiration for an episode. In C.O.D., a delivery man is shot on the stoop of a house in Manhattan, which leads the detectives to his wife, who he was cheating on with several other women. The other woman in the scheme wanted her husband dead so she could inherit his fortune, which he was attempting to prevent her from spending. Unlike Strangers on a Train, both women committed their individual murders, one before the timeline in the episode, and the other at the beginning.

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