Strangers on a Train (1951) - Warner Brothers (Blu-ray, USA, 2012)

Strangers on a Train (1951)

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Overview

• Strangers on a Train (1951) with feature length commentary
• 103 minute "preview" version of the film
• 37 minute documentary Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (2004)

Blu-ray Information

• released by Warner Brothers in 2012 (USA)
• region encoding: region 0
• format: 1 x 50GB Blu-ray disc
• release date: 09/Oct/2012
• UPC/EAN:
• catalogue:
• main transfer: 1080P black & white
• database ID: 4607

Blu-ray Contents

• Strangers on a Train (1951)
  • length: 101 minutes (01:40:49)
  • video: 1080P (MPEG-4 AVC High@L4.1, 23.976fps, 21.9GB)
  • audio: English mono (DTS-HD 1.0 768kbps, 48kHz, 24bit)
  • audio: English mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit) -- commentary track
  • audio: French mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • audio: German mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • audio: Italian mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • audio: Spanish mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • audio: Japanese mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • audio: Portuguese mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish
  • ratio: 1.37:1 (1476x1080 matted to 1920x1080)
  • bitrate: approx 31Mbps (measured by MediaInfo)

Extras

• Feature length commentary track
  • featuring Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Stefano ("Psycho" screenwriter), Andrew Wilson (biographer of Patricia Highsmith), and others
  • audio: English mono (DD 1.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • subtitles: none

• Alternative "preview" version of the film
  • length: 103 minutes (01:42:57)
  • video: 480i NTSC (MPEG-4 AVC High@L4.1, 29.970fps, 4.7GB)
  • audio: English (DD 2.0 192kbps, 48kHz, 16bit)
  • subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish
  • ratio: 1.37:1 (720x480)

• Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (2004) — documentary
  • featuring Peter Bogdanovich, Bill Krohn (author of "Hitchcock at Work"), Andrew Wilson (biographer of Patricia Highsmith), Richard Schickel (film historian), Robert Walker Jnr, Robert Osborne (film historian), Farley Granger, Patricia Hitchcock, Mary Stone (Hitchcock's granddaughter), Joseph Stefano ("Psycho" screenwriter), and Olivia Douglas (wife of Dimitri Tiomkin)
  • length: 37 minutes (00:36:40)
  • video: ?? (??)
  • audio: English
  • subtitles: ??
  • ratio: ??

• Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V. (2004) — featurette
  • length: 7 minutes (00:07:22)
  • video: ?? (??)
  • audio: English
  • subtitles: ??
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• Strangers on a Train: An Appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan (2004) — featurette
  • length: 13 minutes (00:12:46)
  • video: ?? (??)
  • audio: English
  • subtitles: ??
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• The Hitchcocks on Hitch (2004) — featurette
  • length: 11 minutes (00:11:20)
  • video: ?? (??)
  • audio: English
  • subtitles: ??
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• "Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting"
  • length: 1 minute (00:01:08)
  • video: ?? (??)
  • audio: English
  • subtitles: ??
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• "Theatrical Trailer"
  • length: 3 minute (00:02:34)
  • video: ?? (??)
  • audio: English
  • subtitles: ??
  • ratio: ??

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Press Release

Burbank, Calif., June 22, 2012

Classic Thriller, Strangers on a Train, newly remastered and new to Blu-ray

The movie Roger Ebert calls “a first-rate thriller” tells the tale of a fateful train trip, with strangers offering to “exchange” murders, each killing the person the other wants dead. Hitchcock dramatically reinforces the duality of human nature as he introduces tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) who hates his unfaithful wife, and mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) who hates his father. Strangers on a Train, co-adapted by legendary detective fiction writer Raymond Chandler from a novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr.Ripley), was Oscar-nominated for Best Cinematography, and placed #32 of AFI’s list of the 100 Most Thrilling Films. It’s not surprising, since “Master of Suspense” Hitchcock’s tagline for the film is “a hundred and one breathless minutes of matchless suspense.”

Special Features:

• Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Stefano, Andrew Wilson, Joe Alves, Peter Benchley, Tere Caruba, Whitfield Cook, Katie Fiala, Richard Franklin, Alfred Hitchcock, Patricia Hitchcock O'Connell, Kasey Rogers, Richard Schickel and Mary Stone
• "Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic"
• "Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V."
• "Strangers on a Train: An Appreciation by M. Night Shyamalan"
• "The Hitchcocks on Hitch"
• "Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting"
• "Preview Version"
• Theatrical Trailer