You know the hook, right? Two men meet for the first time on a train. One of them is respectable, conventional, the other is excitable and a little deranged. The first man (Guy Haines) wants a divorce from his cheating wife, who is in no hurry to give it to him, especially now that his career is beg...
“Let not the young souls be smothered out before,They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.It is the world’s one crime its babes grow dull,Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly,Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap,Not that they ser...
Good and quite enjoyable if you buy into the whole “strangers hitting it off and over-sharing life stories in public” premise, but not so good or enjoyable if you find all of that unbelievable. Unfortunately, I fall into the latter group. While I enjoyed Highsmith’s prose, clever social commentary...
I wanted to like this more, but I couldn't. Two shifting narrators and I didn't like either one of them. Also the concept of a good person being psychologically coerced into an evil action by a sociopath has been done better. Specifically, I could not help but compare this novel unfavorably to Ja...
I went into this already familiar with Hitchcock’s film version of the same story. The opening premise of the film and HighSmith’s novel are the same. Two strangers meet on the train and discuss among other things, people in their lives: a Wife, a Father, who they would be better off without. O...
I was surprised to find out how different the original novel is from the excellent Hitchcock film. Hitchcock went for suspense and thrills which necessitated substantial changes to the original story. In Highsmith's equally excellent novel, Bruno remains the quintessential rich spoiled psychopath ye...
Adapted by Craig Warner With Anton Lesser, Michael Sheen, Saskia Reeves and Bill NighyAlso with Jane Whittenshaw, Denys Hawthorne, Stephen Critchlow, John Hartley, Andrew Branch and Roger MayDirected by Andy JordanBroadcast 25 Jan 1996, rpt 24 Apr 1997from Radio 4¹s Cinema 100 seasonAdapted from the...
Fans of the [b:Alfred Hitchcock|2014794|The Thirty-nine Steps.|John Buchan|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JYVWNH8DL._SL75_.jpg|2422487] adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel, Strangers on a Train, will discover that it resembles the film mostly in the initial set up of the plot, th...
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