Bruno dreams up a crazy scheme for the perfect murder in which two total strangers, he and Guy, exchange murders on a crisscross. He called the meetings "god-awful jabber sessions which seem to be an inevitable although painful part of the picture business. Walker's role has extreme color, and he projects it deftly. Hitchcock was attracted by the theme of the exchange crime”. "I have always given it careful consideration, so that my characters never eat out of character. Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. Strangers on a Train (1951), Drama released in English language in theatre near you. The rest was complete by early November. [66] According to biographer Charlotte Chandler (Lyn Erhard), Hitchcock himself did not like either the "British" or the "American" version: Hitchcock told [Chandler] that the picture should have ended with Guy at the amusement park after he has been cleared of murdering his wife. Strangers on a Train is a 1951 American psychological thriller film noir produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. The psychopath commits the first murder, then tries to force the tennis player to complete the bargain. Watch Strangers on a Train Full Movie 1951 - video Dailymotion [20] "Low-keyed, mild mannered", Burks was "a versatile risk-taker with a penchant for moody atmosphere. She went on to produce another twenty-one. American Film Institute listed the film as #32 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills. He told the obscure writer that the famous one hadn't written a solitary line he intended to use, and they would have to start all over on page one, using Cook's treatment as a guide. With cast nailed down, a script in hand, and a director of photography in tune with Hitchcock's vision on board, the company was ready to commence filming. Yet both men, like so many of Hitchcock's protagonists, are insecure and uncertain of their identity. [23] Exteriors would be shot on both coasts, and interiors on Warner Brothers' soundstages. "[12] In the novel, Guy is pursued and entrapped by a tenacious detective.[15]. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. "[47] They also demonstrate Hitchcock's gift for deft visual storytelling: For most of the film, Bruno is the actor, Guy the reactor, and Hitchcock always shows Bruno's feet first, then Guy's. When Bruno arrives at the amusement park, a carnival worker recognizes him from the night of the murder; he informs the police, who mistakenly think he has recognized Guy. A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies. Meet... Trunks is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball Z manga series created by Akira Toriyama, Los … The pair has what writer Peter Dellolio refers to as a "dark symbiosis. "[I]n one of the most unexpected, most aesthetically justified moments in film,"[28] the slow, almost graceful, murder is shown as a reflection in the victim's eyeglasses, which have been jarred loose from her head and dropped to the ground. Guy, on the other hand, shows little interest in eating the lunch, apparently having given it no advance thought, in contrast to Bruno, and he merely orders what seems his routine choice, a hamburger and coffee. [6] The director found her "bristling" and "lacking in sex appeal" and said that she had been "foisted upon him. Strangers on a Train Chandler completed a first draft, then wrote a second, without hearing a single word back from Hitchcock; when finally he did get a communication from the director in late September, it was his dismissal from the project.[15]. Strangers On A Train Hitchcock's another perfect plan for a perfect crime is wisely not a gut wrenching bloodbath but a poised and reserved act of trauma. And since it is Guy's foot that taps Bruno's under the table, we know Bruno has not engineered the meeting. But, for all that, his basic premise of fear fired by menace is so thin and so utterly unconvincing that the story just does not stand. "Hitchcock told me that this scene was the most personally frightening moment for him in any of his films", writes biographer Charlotte Chandler. Strangers On A Train is actually quite familiar on Hitchcock's world, a quirky brutal era that breathes for inanity. "Hitchcock raced ahead of everyone: the script, the cast, the studio... pieces of the film were dancing like electrical charges in his brain. He is the perfect victim for Walker, and is a weakling who won't even go to the police when the murder swapping scenario begins. "[13] But Chandler was a notoriously difficult collaborator and the two men could not have had more different meeting styles: Hitchcock enjoyed long, rambling off-topic meetings where often the film would not even be mentioned for hours, while Chandler was strictly business and wanted to get out and get writing. This ending, however, was not acceptable to Warner Bros.[27], In 1997, Warner released the film onto DVD as a double sided disc, with the "British" version on one side, and the "Hollywood" version on the reverse. [47], Roger Ebert wrote that "it is this sense of two flawed characters — one evil, one weak, with an unstated sexual tension — that makes the movie intriguing and halfway plausible, and explains how Bruno could come so close to carrying out his plan."[3]. The movie’s metaphorical, choose-your-own-interpretive-adventure … [5], David Keyes, writing at cinemaphile.org in 2002, saw the film as a seminal entry in its genre: "Aside from its very evident approach as a crowd-pleasing popcorn flick, the movie is one of the original shells for identity-inspired mystery thrillers, in which natural human behavior is the driving force behind the true macabre rather than supernatural elements. Believing that Guy is trying to escape, a police officer shoots at him, but the shot misses, and instead kills the carousel operator, causing the carousel to spin out of control. When the novel was adapted into film by Alfred Hitchcock, he famously managed to buy the rights cheaply, forking out only $7500. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. When Guy arrives home, Bruno informs him Miriam is dead and insists that he must now honor their deal, by killing Bruno's father. [37], Tiomkin's contrasting musical themes continued throughout the film, delineating two characters with substantial differences: "For 'Guy's Theme', Tiomkin created a hesitant, passive idea, made-to-order music for Farley Granger's performance. A very good choice for train food. [32], The explosion is triggered by the attempts of a carnival man to stop the ride after crawling under the whirling carousel deck to get to the controls in the center. Together the three women, working under the boss's guidance and late into most nights,[15] finished enough of the script in time to send the company East. "On one side of the street, [are] stately respectable houses; towering in the background, on the right of the screen, the floodlit dome of the U.S. Capitol, the life to which Guy aspires, the world of light and order. As shown in theaters, the film ends with … [8], Kasey Rogers (whose performance as Miriam is credited as Laura Elliott) noted that she had perfect vision at the time the movie was made, but Hitchcock insisted she wear the character's thick eyeglasses, even in long shots when regular glass lenses would have been undetectable. But perhaps the most memorable music in Strangers is the calliope music,[21] heard first at the fairground and again, later, when Bruno is strangling Mrs. Cunningham at Senator Morton's soirée, and experiences his unfortunate flashback and subsequent fainting spell. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. "[59] Leslie Halliwell felt that Hitchcock was "at his best" and that the film "makes superior suspense entertainment," but called the story "unsatisfactory. "Holden would have been all wrong—too sturdy, too put off by Bruno", writes critic Roger Ebert. The psychopath suggests that because they each want to "get rid" of someone, they should "exchange" murders, and that way neither will be caught. "[58], Conversely, Bosley Crowther of The New York Times criticized the film: "Mr. Hitchcock again is tossing a crazy murder story in the air and trying to con us into thinking that it will stand up without support. With a release scheduled for early summer, the studio press agents swung into high gear early in 1951. Hitchcock had written exacting specifications for an amusement park, which was constructed on the ranch of director Rowland Lee in Chatsworth, California. An early preview edit of the film, sometimes labeled the "British" version although it was never released in Britain or anywhere else, includes some scenes either not in, or else different from, the film as released. [12] Treatment writer Cook used Guy to make the film "a parable quietly defiant of the Cold War hysteria sweeping America. [40] He was also photographed adding the letter L to Strangers on the official studio poster for the film,[25] thus changing the word to Stranglers. and the other, far distant, makes a choking gesture. [17], Even while the torturous writing stage was plodding its course, the director's excitement about the project was boundless. Later in life, while still praising Robert Walker's performance as Bruno, she criticized the casting of Ruth Roman as Anne, Hitchcock's decision to turn Guy from an architect into a tennis player, and the fact that Guy does not murder Bruno's father as he does in the novel. One could study it forever. He wanted the last line of the film to be Guy describing Bruno as "a very clever fellow". Strangers.On.a.Train.1951.Alfredtchcock.DVDRip.XviD-iRMã0S. Guy correctly infers that Bruno intends to plant it at the scene of the murder, and incriminate him. Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death. This triggers a flashback; Bruno compulsively squeezes the woman's neck, and other guests intervene to stop him from strangling the woman to death. The film holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Roger Ebert has called Strangers on a Train a "first-rate thriller" that he considers one of Hitchcock's five best films. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. The unusual angle was a more complex proposition than it seems. "[26], One of the most memorable single shots in the Hitchcock canon — it "is studied by film classes", says Laura Elliott, who played Miriam[27] – is her character's strangulation by Bruno on the Magic Isle. Warner Bros financial information in The William Shaefer Ledger. [19], Carringer has argued that the film was crucially shaped by the Congressional inquiries, making Guy the stand-in for victims of the homophobic climate. Synopsis It starts with a shriek of a train whistle…and ends with shrieking excitement. [17], Upon its release in 1951, Strangers on a Train received mixed reviews. The merry-go-round scene is not in the book, but is taken from the climax of Edmund Crispin's 1946 novel The Moving Toyshop. As in other famous thrillers from the filmmaker, the growing danger is interlaced with ironic twists (including, in this case, a perverse reversal on the fateful footsie that connects the two men). [9], Hitchcock secured the rights to the Patricia Highsmith novel for just $7,500 since it was her first novel. [67], Strangers on a Train was adapted for the radio program Lux Radio Theatre on two occasions: on December 3, 1951, with Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy, and Ray Milland, and on April 12, 1954, with Virginia Mayo, Dana Andrews, and Robert Cummings.[43]. Loving the Alien. He got a treatment that pleased him on the second attempt, from writer Whitfield Cook, who wove a homoerotic subtext (only hinted at in the novel) into the story and softened Bruno from a coarse alcoholic into a dapper, charming mama's boy — a much more Hitchcockian villain. 'If the man had raised his head even slightly", Hitchcock said, "it would have gone from being a suspense film into a horror film. "[15] This would be their last collaboration. Much like The Lady Vanishes, Strangers on a Train is widely considered to be one of Hitchcock’s best, and, while I do enjoy it as a solidly good thriller, I find myself thinking just a bit less of it than the rest of the movie loving world. [17] Hitchcock preferred the writing credit of Whitfield Cook and Czenzi Ormonde, but Warner Bros. wanted the cachet of the Chandler name and insisted it stay on. "[52], Hitchcock continues the interplay of light and dark throughout the film: Guy's bright, light tennis attire, versus "the gothic gloominess of [Bruno's] Arlington mansion";[45] the crosscutting between his game in the sunshine at Forest Hills while Bruno's arm stretches into the dark and debris of the storm drain trying to fish out the cigarette lighter;[53] even a single image where "Walker is photographed in one visually stunning shot as a malignant stain on the purity of the white-marble Jefferson Memorial, as a blot on the order of things. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. Just how much better could Harry Potter's life have been if a certain bushy-haired witch had wandered into his compartment just a few minutes earlier? "[22], Burks considered his fourteen years with Hitchcock the best of his career: "You never have any trouble with him as long as you know your job and do it. Strangers on a Train is not a bad film at all, but it’s a casualty of self-editing and self-censorship in deference to the standards and expectations of its time. I always thought that Robert Walker was a lightweight and happened to be Jennifer Jones' husband and that was about the extent of it. [3] Hitchcock said that he originally wanted William Holden for the Guy Haines role,[4][5] but Holden declined. Once on the train, Bruno orders a pair of double drinks — "The only kind of doubles I play", he says charmingly. It is based on the book by Patricia Highsmith who is very famous for her “The Talented Mr. Ripley”. Instead of arresting Guy, the police assign an around-the-clock escort to watch him. It is full of stylistic techniques to achieve a desirable effect of suspense. Guy meets with Miriam, who is pregnant by someone else, at her workplace in Metcalf, their hometown. How does this change their relationship with Ron, with everyone? Then I saw "Strangers On A Train" and his performance in that film changed my mind and how!! Alfred Hitchcock's cameo appearance occurs 11 minutes into the film. [16]—always a plus with Hitchcock. After meeting by chance, they discover that they both believe that their happiness is being thwarted by a family member. While he had previous Hitchcock experience on Shadow of a Doubt (1943), and would go on to score two more consecutive Hitchcock films, the director and composer "simply never developed much of a kinship"[21] and "the Hitchcock films are not Tiomkin's best". I expected more from this author. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. "The Band Played On" makes its final reprise during Guy's and Bruno's fight on the merry-go-round, even itself shifting to a faster tempo and higher pitch when the policeman's bullet hits the ride operator and sends the carousel into its frenzied hyper-drive. She threatens to claim that he is the father, in order to thwart any divorce-attempt. with any force or conviction. July 17, 2020 August 7, 2020 davidmvining #18 in my Ranking of Alfred Hitchcock’s films. [55] "Highsmith's Bruno is a physically repugnant alcoholic... but in [Whitfield Cook's] hands, the film's Bruno became a dandy, a mama's boy who speaks French, and who professes ignorance of women. [11], Hitchcock then tried Raymond Chandler, who had earned an Oscar nomination for his first screenplay, Double Indemnity, in collaboration with Billy Wilder. But Hitchcock takes music to another level. The band plays on through Bruno's stalking of his victim and during the murder itself, blaring from the front of the screen, then receding into the darkness as an eerie obbligato when the doomed Miriam enters the Tunnel of Love.[38]. Train of Fools. garykmcd. "[29] The first six takes went badly—Elliott thudded to the floor with several feet yet to go[22]—but on the seventh take, she floated smoothly all the way. "[44] Bruno embodies Guy's dark desire to kill Miriam, a "real-life incarnation of Guy's wish-fulfillment fantasy".[44]. [63][64], According to Warner Bros' records, the film earned $1,788,000 domestically and $1,144,000 in foreign territories.[1]. "[45] It undergirds the whole film because it finally serves to associate the world of light, order, and vitality with the world of darkness, chaos, lunacy and death. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused to divorce him. A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body. *2 1/2 Stars* Strangers on a Train was an oddball story between two opposing characters that needed to take a course on how to express themselves. What is the homoerotic message in the film? "The climactic carousel explosion was a marvel of miniatures and background projection, acting close-ups and other inserts, all of it seamlessly matched and blended under film editor William H. Ziegler's eye. "[3], Warner Bros. wanted their own stars, already under contract, cast wherever possible. [16], There was not much time though — less than three weeks until location shooting was scheduled to start in the East. [39] It is a score that "goes largely uncelebrated."[39]. This may not be one of Hitchcock's best films but it certainly should be on everyone's list as a must-see. Some people are better off dead.") [56] All the major elements of the scene — the two men struggling, the accidentally shot attendant, the out-of-control merry-go-round, the crawling under the moving merry-go-round to disable it — are present in Crispin's account,[57] though he received no screen credit for it. Although Hitchcock admitted to undercranking the shot (artificially accelerating the action),[33] it was not a trick shot: the man actually had to crawl under the spinning ride, just inches from possible injury. It features Leo G. Carroll, Pat Hitchcock (the director's daughter), and Laura Elliott (later known as Kasey Rogers). Variety praised it, writing: "Performance-wise, the cast comes through strongly. A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder—a theory that he plans to implement. "[12], Even before sewing up the rights for the novel, Hitchcock's mind was whirling with ideas about how to adapt it for the screen. [18], There was one point of agreement between Chandler and Hitchcock, although it would come only much later, near the release of the film: they both acknowledged that since virtually none of Chandler's work remained in the final script, his name should be removed from the credits. Strangers on a Train (1951) was director Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful, noirish black and white thriller about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) and psychopathic dandy Bruno Antony (Robert Walker), who staged a battle of wits and proposed trading murders with each other. The story, from the book by Patricia Highsmith, is well adapted from the original and may even be better. A former tennis player tries to arrange his wife's murder after learning of her affair. Title: "[11] Interpersonal relations deteriorated rapidly until finally Chandler became openly combative; at one point, upon viewing Hitchcock struggling to exit from his limousine, Chandler remarked within earshot, "Look at the fat bastard trying to get out of his car! Yet as Bruno describes his "theories" over lunch, "Guy responds to Bruno — we see it in his face, at once amused and tense. Next shot. Highsmith isn’t exactly sympathetic to the almost perpetually drunken Bruno, but she lets his character … He is also something of a hedonist. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. [35], Composer Dimitri Tiomkin was Jack Warner's choice to score Strangers on a Train. "[49], Bruno tells Guy early on that he admires him: "I certainly admire people who do things", he says. Follow/Fav Strangers On a Train. Senator. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. He has no patience with mediocrity on the set or at a dinner table. [3] "Granger is softer and more elusive, more convincing as he tries to slip out of Bruno's conversational web instead of flatly rejecting him. Rogers was effectively blind with the glasses on and needed to be guided by the other actors. Ordinary Washington locations become sinister hunting grounds that mirror perfectly the creeping terror that slowly consumes Guy, as the lethally smooth Bruno relentlessly pursues him to a frenzied climax. There can be no compromise in his work, his food or his wines. 29 talking about this. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. Bruno sends Guy a package containing a pistol, a house key, and a map showing the location of his father's bedroom. Guy wants to move into a career in politics and has been dating Senator Morton's daughter Anne while awaiting a divorce from his wife. The police question Guy, but are unable to confirm his alibi: a professor Guy met on the train was so drunk that he cannot remember their encounter. [43] Of greater interest to Warner was the box office take, and the "receipts soon told the true story: Strangers on a Train was a success, and Hitchcock was pronounced at the top of his form as master of the dark, melodramatic suspense thriller. Bruno is delayed when he accidentally drops Guy's lighter down a storm drain and must retrieve it. Some of the images in this film are quite striking.....the reflection in the victim's glasses, the tennis match where everyone is watching the ball except Walker, and the fingers groping in the drain for the lighter. In the casting of Anne Morton, Jack L. Warner got what he wanted when he assigned Ruth Roman to the project, over Hitchcock's objections. There’s also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part of you, … These disturbing sounds, heard to superb effect in cues such as 'The Meeting,' 'Senator's Office,' and 'Jefferson Memorial,' are not just about Bruno, but about how he is perceived by those whose lives he crosses—first Guy, then everyone in Guy's entourage."[36]. Guy goes to the Mortons' home, where Anne's father informs Guy that his wife has been murdered. Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife Miriam so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. View this post on Instagram ‘People, feelings, everything! Poor Robert Walker never got the chance to follow up this wonderful performance due to his untimely death and the promise he showed here as a villain may have taken him to greater characterizations. HITCHCOCK DIDN'T LIKE THE ENDING—EITHER OF THEM. Miriam informs Guy that she no longer wants to end their marriage. A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. The trouble with Harry is that he is dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. With his new writer, he wanted to start from square one: At their first conference, Hitchcock made a show of pinching his nose, then holding up Chandler's draft with his thumb and forefinger and dropping it into a wastebasket. By: bonded4life. [27] Anne reaches for the big phone, but actually answers a regular one: "I did that on one take", Hitchcock explained, "by moving in on Anne so that the big phone went out of the frame as she reached for it. This fear is at the heart of many of his best films, including "Strangers on a Train" (1951), in which a man becomes the obvious suspect in the strangulation of his wife. [10] Highsmith was quite annoyed when she later discovered who bought the rights for such a small amount. The film was later made available on Blu-ray in 2012 with the same contents as the 2004 DVD edition. “Strangers on a Train” is one of the masterpieces of Alfred Hitchcock that had a great success. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? Strangers on a Train was Patricia Highsmith’s debut novel. Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. It is one of the moments in Hitchcock's work that continues to bring gasps from every audience and applause from cinema students. [11][14] Chandler took the job despite his opinion that it was "a silly little story. He makes an excellent suspect because of the genius of the actual killer's original plan: Two strangers will "exchange murders," each killing the person the other wants dead. Especially with Bruno, who held the movie together as he did the book." These events were the background to their work, while Hitchcock, Cook, Ormonde and Keon were preparing the script for Strangers, and film scholar Robert L. Carringer has written of a political subtext to the film. October 4, 2019. Strangers On A Train is a psychological thriller. The bad news are that Sune has left the band due to personal priorities. [45], This doubling has some precedent in the novel; but more of it was deliberately added by Hitchcock, "dictated in rapid and inspired profusion to Czenzi Ormonde and Barbara Keon during the last days of script preparation. Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. Ormonde hunkered down with Hitchcock's associate producer Barbara Keon—disparagingly called "Hitchcock's factotum" by Chandler[17]—and Alma Reville, Hitchcock's wife. file size 52.3 kb | format .SRT | French subtitles (24-10-2016) Strangers on a Train Strangers on a Train 1951 720p BluRay AAC1.0 x264-DON file size 60.6 kb | format .SRT | Greek subtitles (11-01-2017) Forbidden Planet Forbidden.Planet.1956.640x256.25fps.929kbs.96mp3.MultiSub.Wu file size 42.9 kb | format .SRT | … "[3] Blurring the lines puts both Guy and Bruno on a good-evil continuum, and the infinite shades of gray in between, became Hitchcock's canvas for telling the story and painting his characters. "Me, I never do anything important." [41] Hitchcock and Patricia both were afraid of heights, and father offered daughter a hundred dollars to ride the Ferris wheel — only to order the power cut, leaving her in the dark at the very top of the ride. Roman's role as a nice, understanding girl is a switch for her, and she makes it warmly effective. A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. "[52] Bruno tells Guy what he has done and gives him the glasses. Written in 1950, the undercurrents of homosexuality between the two men must have seemed shocking. Farley Granger, who never was one of my favorites is all wrong for the part of Guy Haines. It was shot in the autumn of 1950 and released by Warner Bros. on June 30, 1951. On a train, wealthy smooth-talking psychopath Bruno Antony recognizes Haines and reveals his idea for a murder scheme: two perfect strangers meet and "swap murders" — Bruno suggests he kill Miriam and Guy kill Bruno's hated father. To amuse another guest, Bruno demonstrates how to strangle someone by playfully putting his hands around her neck. The worker who had called the police now tells them that Bruno, not Guy, is the one whom he remembers seeing the night of the murder. You May Also Like. Anne visits Bruno's home and unsuccessfully tries to explain to his befuddled mother that her son is a murderer. "[62], Patricia Highsmith's opinion of the film varied over time. "[36] The powerful music accurately underscores the visuals of that title sequence — the massive granite edifice of New York's Pennsylvania Station, standing in for Washington's Union Station—because it was scored for an unusually large orchestra, including alto, tenor and baritone saxes, three clarinets, four horns, three pianos and a novachord. "[46], Guy and Bruno are in some ways doubles, but in many more ways, they are opposites. At first glance, Guy represents the ordered life where people stick to rules, while Bruno comes from the world of chaos,[48] where they get thrown out of multiple colleges for drinking and gambling. As usual, Hitchcock kept his name out of the negotiations to keep the purchase price low. A tale of innocent American tourists in Morocco whose son's kidnapping sets off a twisting plot of international intrigue. 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