![]() The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father.Īs Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. ![]() Her works carry a strong homoerotic thread. ![]() When two young men meet on a train, there's nothing they fear to say. Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. ![]()
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