I've just watched Hitchcock's "Strangers On A Train". This is a double DVD with the UK version on one side and the US version on the other. I watched the UK version. Filmed in the US, US actors etc. Turned the DVD over to check it wasn't a misprint and the US version SEEMS exactly the same, though I've not watched the whole film. Anyone know what the difference is???
Hitchcock's "Strangers On A Train"
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There are three differences in the British version of the film:
The first encounter between Bruno and Guy on the train is longer, and features a more obvious homoerotic flirtation by Bruno;
In the scene where Guy sneaks out of his apartment to go to Bruno's house, a shot of him opening a drawer to get the map Bruno sketched is added;
The very last scene in the US version, which involves a clergyman, was deleted.
[Courtesy of IMDB]
The first encounter between Bruno and Guy on the train is longer, and features a more obvious homoerotic flirtation by Bruno;
In the scene where Guy sneaks out of his apartment to go to Bruno's house, a shot of him opening a drawer to get the map Bruno sketched is added;
The very last scene in the US version, which involves a clergyman, was deleted.
[Courtesy of IMDB]
'Strangers On A Train' was on BBC TWO one Saturday afternoon a few weeks back. I had seen it before but it must have been years ago and watching it again I just had to buy it. Since the original posting, the film has been re-released again, this time with the original and 'British' version spread across two discs and many extras, including feature commentaries, a featurette on the making of the picture, a documentary on Alfred Hitchcock by his daughter and grand-daughters, trailers and more... It is such a great film, surely one of Hitchcock's overlooked masterpieces, with quite a strong gay subtext which must have been quite a lot to take at the time, and wonderful performances, particularly from the two male leaRAB, Farley Granger (swoon) and Robert Walker (and how sad to learn that he died later the same year the film was released). Special mention, however, must go to the enchanting performance by Alfred Hitchcock's daughter, Pat, as Ruth Roman's younger sister... And the murder scene, eerily distorted and played through the fallen lenses of the victim's spectacles... (Mind you, she deserved it! 
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I'd seen Psycho but Strangers on a train was the second Hitchcock film I ever saw. It encouraged me to buy some more of his films. The BirRAB, Vertigo, Rope and Rear Window.
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Don't make em like they used to.