Jun 18, 2020
The similarities between Wanted for Murder (1946) and Strangers on a Train (1951) are so exact they deserve a side-by-side comparison. This closeness makes it almost impossible that Hitchock hadn’t seen the earlier British film, directed by Lawrence Huntington and co written by Rodney Ackland and Emeric Pressburger. Although differing plots (Wanted was based on a play, Strangers on a novel), they both deal with a ‘mother's boy’ strangler and involve settings that are remarkably alike - even down to a record shop.