Strangers on a Train (movie)

Hollywood finds romance in travel

2012-02-05 00:00:00

Love is always lovelier some place other than home. Well, at least in the celluloid universe. Traveling by boat, train or even bus can lead to romantic entanglements in the movies, as does visiting �ber-romantic locales such as Rome, Paris and Venice. Of...

Highs, lows — and a graceful exit

2012-12-27 10:38:00

It's my final column of the year and, for that matter, the new millennium — not to mention of all time. Unless it isn't. I'm so confused. Anyhow, let's look at the highs and lows of 2012 — not that you have much choice if you're going to...

Counting down till Sunday and beyond

2012-11-01 06:54:00

It's fall, a good time for countdowns. •Countdown: 53 days till Christmas. •Countdown: 20 days till Thanksgiving. •Countdown: 14 days until I put up Christmas decorations. •Countdown: Seven columns to go. •Backward countdown:...

'Seeking Justice'

2012-05-18 10:00:38

Nicolas Cage plays the man doing the title deed in director Roger Donaldson's ("No Way Out") variation on "Strangers on a Train." After a woman (January Jones, "Mad Men") is assaulted, her husband agrees to let a stranger (Guy Pearce) find the person...

'Horrible Bosses'

2011-09-09 09:20:35

"Throw Momma From the Train" was a comedic tale on the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Strangers on a Train," and in its own way, this also is ... with a definite dose of the crass humor so typical of many movie comedies today. Jason Bateman, Charlie Day ("It'...

The handsome leading man was best known for roles in Hitchcock films. He began his acting career as a teenager in 1943's "The North Star" (pictured) and went on to star in such movies as "They Live by Night" and Hitchcock's "Rope" and "Strangers on a Train." He later appeared on Broadway and in a

2011-03-30 08:28:48