Strangers on a Train

Strangers on a Train

Warner Bros.

June 30, 1951

Mystery

DVD
D+

Contrived, and the "evil wife" is the most interesting character in the first quarter hour.  Raymond Chandler, Ben Hecht, and others adapted the Patricia Highsmith novel.  Hitchcock of course directed.

Angel Face

Angel Face
RKO
February 11, 1953
Crime Drama
DVD
C-

I wasn't drawn in enough to wait for last-billed Jim Backus.  Ben Hecht was apparently uncredited for the screenplay.  Preminger directed this and it was released about five months before the deservedly more famous The Moon Is Blue.