Big Picture: Strangers on a Train (1951)
- Presented By: Tampa Theatre
- Dates: July 9, 2025
- Time: 7:30 PM
- 711 N Franklin St, Tampa, FL 33602
- Price: $7-$10 + taxes and fees
Tampa Theatre
Part of the Big Picture: Presenting Alfred Hitchcock film series in July.
For July, Big Picture is proud to bring you a selection of films that highlight the prolific director Alfred Hitchcock. Something new is revealed when you stand his movies up next to each other. His favorite themes and motifs gain depth. His creative development and willingness to experiment is made obvious. You can feel his fussy, finicky control over every frame grow, then strain, then dissipate. The Academy may never have committed to the idea that Alfred Hitchcock was the best director, but he was certainly one of the most directors — his body of work over more than 50 features influenced contemporary film (for better or worse) as much as any other single individual in history. We believe Big Picture is the perfect place to explore all sorts of film connections, and profiling individual artists is a nexus of one sort of connection.
FILM SYNOPSIS: 1h 41m / PG / Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) finds himself in quite a pickle. He wants a divorce from his wife Miriam, who is pregnant with another man’s child … oh and also he wants to marry Anne (Ruth Roman), the daughter of a U.S. Senator. But all this drama has to be kept out of the gossip columns or it’ll wreck his career. Then one day he meets a stranger on a train (Bruno, played by Robert Walker) who proposes an unconventional solution — he’ll murder Miriam, but in exchange Guy has to murder Bruno’s hated father. And because both murders will have no motive and perfect alibis, both men will walk away free. Guy, to his credit, is so horrified by this idea that he runs away. Less to his credit, he leaves behind an engraved lighter. And so Bruno, now armed with Guy’s darkest secrets and incontrovertible evidence, commences his plan anyway.