2023 Fictitious Veterans Round 1

Guy Haines

Contest: 2023 Fictitious Veterans Round 1
TV Show/Movie Appeared: Strangers on a Train (1951)
Actor/Actress: Farley Granger
Position Portrayed: Tennis Player
Why you should vote:: We can’t say that we are exactly tennis fans, but we have a very interesting character here.
Why you should not vote:: The sport of tennis, which although was seen had limited relevance to the plot.
When you think of Alfred Hitchcock, you think of suspense and not athletics, however in his 1951 film, Strangers on a Train, we have a tennis player involved in a murder plot in what we can only describe as “Hitchcockian”. As good a movie as this was, was the sport of tennis really relevant to this film?