Strangers On A Train by Patricia Highsmith
Dramatized by Craig Warner
Directed by Andy Jordan
BBC Radio 4 - Cinema 100 Season - 25.01.1996
Summary[]
Adapted from the classic 1950 Highsmith novel. Architect Guy Haines wants to divorce his unfaithful wife, Miriam, in order to marry the woman he loves. While on a train to see his wife, he meets Charles Anthony Bruno, who develops the idea to exchange murders: Bruno will kill Miriam if Guy kills Bruno's father; neither of them will have a motive, and the police will have no reason to suspect either of them.
Cast[]
- Charles - Anton Lesser
- Guy - Michael Sheen
- Anne - Saskia Reeves
- Gerard - Bill Nighy
- Elsie - Jane Whittenshaw
- Alex - Denys Hawthorne
- Treacher - Stephen Critchlow
- Cop - John Hartley
- Freyer - Andrew Branch
- Myers - Roger May
- Directed by Andy Jordan
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