Strangers on a Train (1951)

2024-06-10

It’s time for a bit more classic film gay subtext of a varying degree of obviousness. It’s one of our favorite things to see in this month’s theme we’re calling MOVIES ARE GAY and we say that because they are. We like Pro Wrestling too and that is also gay. So many gay things all around us. You step on a train full of strangers and surely one of them will be gay. Maybe they can tell that you’re at least kinda gay and they got some great ideas they want to share. Like killing your wife in exchange for you killing their homophobe dad. Are we speaking the same language? Hitchcock seems particularly sad of the classic closeted Hollywood. The repression maybe didn’t make him very nice to Tippi Hedren but the rumors still live on after pushing that “wife guy” image so hard. I’m sure Alma had a deep understanding. Maybe it was a Charles Laughton/Elsa Lancaster situation? We’re discussing Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 film “STRANGERS ON A TRAIN” and here we star Farley Granger (gay) as “Guy” who has a chance encounter and candid conversations on a train with “Bruno” as played by Robert Walker (mormon). Bruno leans in a little too much and kills Guy’s no good wife and insists that Guy kill his father. It’s all a big mess that leads to tons of that Hitchcock tension your grandma loved. Including a killer carousel at the end that has a fatal design flaw. Good thing pappy was there. Stay gay, true believers. Here’s the movie: https://archive.org/details/strangers-on-a-train-720p Excelsior!

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