Eddie Muller's Intro to "Strangers on a Train" (1951) on TCM Noir Alley

On November 26, 2017, TCM showed "Strangers on a Train" (1951) as its selection for its weekly "Noir Alley" show (Sunday mornings, 10 a.m.) Here is the intro by host Eddie Muller, aka The Czar of Noir.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Yeah, another brilliant one. Patricia Highsmith a brilliant writer. Can't go far wrong with her.

[@EA-gl9oi]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING! Hitchcock is a favourite of mine.

[@raystaar]

If you haven't already thought of it, or indeed, begun doing it Eddie, may I suggest that you take your suave presentation skills and deep knowledge of noir and crime cinema and use them to create your own KZbin channel. Now that TCM has been hidden on jock TV, many of your fans, including me, would applaud such a move and would, I feel certain, propel it popularity.

[@apachelogiano612]

Thanks for these videos!! Now, Eddie Muller... STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) is not a Film Noir. Neither REBECCA (1940) nor SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943), nor NOTORIOUS (1946). The closest that was the master Hitchcock of the Film Noir was his "American Color Noir" ROPE. Hitchcock was an expert in Crime Films, Suspense, Thriller, even Psychological Terror ... But inside the Film Noir he does not have a single movie. But... there is the special case of PSYCHO (1960), a film that in its first third flows very similar to a film noir, but quickly turns into a Horror Thriller that made history, and certainly the film is great and BIG for this twist that it brings out to the Noir film. Suggestive that Eddie Muller himself ventures in one of his books that Film Noir possibly died in the shower with Janet Leigh.

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@EGGBERT INKABOD What are the Film Noirs of Hitchcock?

[@apachelogiano612]

@EGGBERT INKABOD I said that? ROPE (1948) is not a Film Noir. It's close in some ways, but it's a great Crime Thriller that could not be called Film Noir.

[@ThePiratemachine]

Carlos Paredes Expand the definition?

[@steveweinstein3222]

They're all film noirs. Prove me wrong.

[@steveweinstein3222]

Typical Hitch perversity: He cast the most out-gay actor in Hollywood, Farley Granger, in the non-gay role; and a straight actor in the gay role.

[@bonnerwf]

I thought Pat Hitchcock was terrific in this movie .

[@pommelhorsepommelhorse8731]

We like Eddie but he needs some decent ties

[@MrAristaeus]

An exactly matching chest pocket handkerchief is also a no-no. It should always be near matching.