Strangers on a Train/YMMV

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  • Adaptation Displacement: The novel is pretty well forgotten, whereas the movie is a classic.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Robert Walker, who played Bruno, suffered from mental and emotional problems in Real Life. Less than two months after this film's premiere, he had an emotional outburst following a bout of drinking. His housekeeper summoned Walker's psychiatrist, who administered an injection of sodium amytal to try and calm him down; the drug interacted with the alcohol in his system to cause a severe (and ultimately fatal) reaction.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel: "His hands were on her neck, but he was strangling me."
  • Special Effects Failure: The merry-go-round scene has not aged well.
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