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Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 20, 1951 | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 13, 1951 | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

Strangers on a Train. Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but dazzlingly tricky thriller about a psychopath (Robert Walker) with a new scheme for foolproof murder (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 30, 1951 | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

...movie is also the first to glorify the federal sleuths of the Post Office Inspection Service (who now. presumably qualify for abbreviation as P-men). When a post-office inspector is murdered, Inspector Ladd gets the job of running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten out, but not before the picture works its familiar story into well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 28, 1951 | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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