HERE ARE the fears that haunt us, the nightmarish urban myths of our time: a psychopath, undetected, untreated, lying in wait; the train accident, wiping out our loved ones in a moment; the suffering child crying behind the closed door.Jakeman, Jane...
Strangers on a Train: Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll. A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to
Strangers on a TrainShe burst onto the literary scene when her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was published in 1950. It was followed just a year later by the 1951 film version directed by Alfred Hitchcock. With that, her reputation was secured....
Strangers in the Night: Directed by Anthony Mann. With William Terry, Virginia Grey, Helene Thimig, Edith Barrett. A lonely, mentally-unbalanced woman invents a fictitious daughter and has the "daughter" write to a Marine stationed in the South Pacific.
a straightforward book-to-screen translation, he draws from somewhere profoundly personal. In a resounding performance, Scott stars a screenwriter who ruminates on the loss of his parents for his latest project, and the character shares more than a few qualities with Haigh as a fortysomething ...
a fiction full of nonfiction that is the tale of a downsized New York book editor gone to Paris to escape her life's dilemmas and train as a tour guide. Her instructor in this hurried transfusion of knowledge of all things French enlists a prominent cast of characters that might seem fami...
Also, the sight of the train going through was well-loved. (We took them on the train the first day we were there. A big success!) But, I don't know that anyone mentioned how exciting it is for grandkids to wander over to the 'dog park' area. There, they were allowed...
Throughout All of Us Strangers,“The Power of Love” emerges as a sort of anchor point. During Adam’s second trip home, he leafs through a pile of vinyl records in his old bedroom, lingering on a copy of Welcome to the Pleasuredome, the Frankie Goes to Hollywood album that features th...
Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room. [B] Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretations but at t...
“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don’t know and trusting them with your life.” -Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star ...