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Strangers on a Train
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #289
- IMDb #436
- Google retired #1298
- Rotten Tomatoes #92
- Metacritic #262
- Letterboxd #456
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #120
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #338
- Metacritic Critics #264
- Metacritic Audience #539
- Criticker #184
- Douban #577
- Kinopoisk #891
- AlloCiné #687
- Trakt #877
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Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 71, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98. Critics average 93, everyone else 81.
See the most agreed on films →A charming psychopath proposes a deadly idea to a tennis star: they should "exchange" murders so neither will have a motive. He believes this will create the perfect, untraceable crime. When the athlete dismisses the proposal as a joke, the stranger decides to carry out his half of the bargain anyway. The athlete is then trapped in a sinister game, pressured to commit a murder he never agreed to while the true killer blackmails him.
Details
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writers
- Czenzi Ormonde, Raymond Chandler
- Based on
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
- Released
- 27 June 1951
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Box office
- $7.0M
- Awards
- 0 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 3 →0 wins from 3 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Academy Award 1951 | Best Cinematography | Robert Burks | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Award 1951 | Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| National Board of Review Award 1951 | Best Film | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
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3 awards — Strangers on a Train
×| Best Cinematography | Robert Burks | Nominee |
| Outstanding Directing – Feature Film | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |
| Best Film | Alfred Hitchcock | Nominee |