We all remember going into the cinema – most looking like this. These pictures are taken from a Television show recently which I had recorded and seeing this struck me because this seemed to me to be just as it was !!

‘Strangers on a Train’ was released in 1951

We all remember going into the cinema – most looking like this

We all remember going into the cinema – most looking like this

ABOVE – We just loved an ice cream usually between the films – after the supporting film and before the main event

ABOVE – An even earlier photograph and from the film advertised on the giatnt bill board probably 1948

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“Strangers on a Train” is one of the most cinematically suspenseful films in history. #

It is an astonishing example of filmmaking used to invoke uneasiness.

The story, which begins when two strangers meet on a train, is so entertaining you sometimes forget it’s about murder.

This is one of Hitchcock’s best films

A truly Hitchockian film, “Strangers On a Train” cleverly plays with two of Hitchcock’s favourite themes (murder and the “wrong man”),

In many of his films, he contrasts dramatic events with familiar places, this time using an amusement park as a place for terror. It also features one of the most entertaining and creepiest villains ever put on-screen. Everything is framed by camera angles, lighting, and sound.