Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Leading Actors/Actresses
Farley Granger, Robert Walker, and Ruth Roman
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, and Laura Elliott
Genre
Psychological Thriller
Language
English
Awards
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography
Date of Release
30th June 1951
Producer
Alfred Hitchcock
Setting and Context
the 1950's: on a train and Washington D.C.
Narrator and Point of View
Told from a third-person point of view
Tone and Mood
Violent, Solemn, Chaotic, Mysterious, and Conniving
Protagonist and Antagonist
Guy (Protagonist) vs. Bruno (Antagonist)
Major Conflict
Guy's struggle to fend off Bruno's attempts to get him to murder someone.
Climax
When Guy and Bruno meet at a carousel
Foreshadowing
Bruno and Guy's meeting on the train foreshadows Guy's reluctance to murder the person Bruno wants him to
Understatement
Bruno's homosexuality is understated throughout the film.
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
N/A
Allusions
Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name, The Strawberry Blonde (1941), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), The 39 Steps (1935), popular culture of the time, mythology, religion, the Bible, and geography of the United States.
Paradox
Guy did not commit murder, yet is the number one suspect of it.
Parallelism
N/A
