Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).

Opinion is divided on the noir status of several of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers from the era ; at least four qualify by consensus: Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Notorious ( 1946 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and The Wrong Man ( 1956 ).

*" Super Bon Bon " ( off Irresistible Bliss ) appeared in " Strangers and Other Partners ," episodes of the television series Homicide: Life on the Street, Long Term Parking, The Sopranos, and Castle, and was also the theme song of ECW wrestler Danny Doring and Roadkill.

' The story he chose to tell turned out to be Strangers in Paradise, or ' this story about 2 girls and a guy who gets to know them ' ( from Moore's introduction to The Collected Strangers in Paradise, Volume One ), which used characters he'd developed during his time on the gag-a-day circuit.

The album also features Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on " I Never Talk to Strangers.

* Strangers on a Train, with Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano, Patricia Highsmith biographer Andrew Wilson, and other participants

* Robert Walker ( actor ) ( 1918 – 1951 ), actor remembered for his role in Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), father of Robert Walker Jr

Lorre made nine movies altogether with Sydney Greenstreet counting The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, most of them variations on the latter film, including Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ); Passage to Marseille ( 1944, reteaming them with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains ); The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, with character actor Greenstreet receiving top billing ); The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ); Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ); Three Strangers ( 1946 ), a suspense film about three people who are joint partners on a winning lottery ticket starring top-billed Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and third-billed Lorre cast against type by director Jean Negulesco as the romantic lead ; and Greenstreet and Lorre's final film together, suspense thriller The Verdict ( 1946 ), director Don Siegel's first movie, with Greenstreet and Lorre finally billed first and second, respectively.

* " Passage ", a song by Vienna Teng on her 2004 album Warm Strangers

The film was scored by Dimitri Tiomkin, his first collaboration with Hitchcock ( the others being Strangers on a Train, I Confess and Dial M for Murder ).

MacArthur is best known for his plays in collaboration with Ben Hecht, Ladies and Gentlemen ( filmed as Perfect Strangers ), Twentieth Century and the frequently filmed The Front Page, which was based in part on MacArthur's experiences at the City News Bureau of Chicago.

" Carry On Wayward Son " has been included on soundtracks for the following movies and television shows: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Family Guy, Gentlemen Broncos, Happy Gilmore, Heroes ( 1977 ), Scrubs, South Park (" Guitar Queer-o " episode ), King of the Hill (" My Own Private Rodeo "), Strangers with Candy (" Yes You Can't "), and Supernatural ( during the intro for each season finale ), and Supernatural: The Anime Series ( as the ending for each episode ).

Later that year, the band went on tour in the USA and recorded a live album, Strangers In The Night, which was released in January 1979.

Rocket Cottage also included experimental tracks " Fighting for Strangers " ( with sparse vocals singing concurrently in a variety of keys ) and, on the final track, excerpts of studio banter between the band members and a seemingly impromptu rendition of " Camptown Races ", in which Prior gets the lyrics wrong.

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, the third part of the trilogy, tells the stories of several people whose parents sent them on the kindertransport to escape the Germans, as well as one woman who was meant to go and did not because her father pulled her off the train.

* Eric " Bobo " Correa – guest percussionist on " Running ", " Strangers " and " Stealing Happy Hours " on Transistor

Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

In various interviews, Newman has credited The Fleetwoods with giving him his first national break: the trio recorded his song, " They Tell Me It's Summer ", as the B side of one of their 11 hit singles, giving Newman great exposure and royalties ( piggy-backed on the sale of the Fleetwoods ' 1962 hit A side, " Lovers By Night, Strangers By Day ").

* Alfred Hitchcock's movie Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), was translated to French as " L ' inconnu du Nord-Express " ( The unknown man in the Nord-Express ).

Though he robustly defended the policy at the time, in his 2006 book Not Quite the Diplomat ( published in the United States as Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in the New Century ) he claims to have thought it was a mistake on Margaret Thatcher's part.

His " unmistakable midrange tone " emphasized by the partially engaged wah, as exemplified on the song " Rock Bottom " from the UFO album Strangers in the Night, was listed among the 50 greatest tones of all time by Guitar Player magazine.

She had small roles in three of her father's films: Stage Fright ( 1950 ), in which she played a jolly acting student named Chubby Bannister, one of Wyman's school chums ; Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), playing Barbara Morton, future sister-in-law of Guy Haines ( Farley Granger ); and Psycho ( 1960 ), playing Janet Leigh's plain-Jane office mate, Caroline, who generously offers to share tranquilizers that her mother gave her for her wedding night.

He reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ) which is about two train passengers: tennis pro Guy ( Farley Granger ) and Bruno ( Robert Walker ) who staged a battle of wits and traded murders with each other, Dial M For Murder ( 1954 ) with Ray Milland as a villainous husband who attempts to murder his wealthy wife ( Grace Kelly ), Rear Window ( 1954 ) which is about man ( James Stewart ) being convinced that his neighbour is a killer, To Catch a Thief ( 1955 ), a lightweight thriller set in South of France, Vertigo ( 1958 ), with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic ' wife ' ( Kim Novak ) of an old friend, and North by Northwest in which an advertising executive ( Cary Grant ) is mistaken for a non-existent spy and chased across the country while aided by a mysterious woman ( Eva Marie Saint ).

The Alfred Hitchcock films Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, and Strangers on a Train and David Lynch's bizarre and influential Blue Velvet are notable examples of the type, as are The Talented Mr. Ripley, The Machinist, Don't Say A Word, House of 9, Trapped, Flightplan, Shutter Island, Secret Window, Identity, Red Eye, Phone Booth, Psycho, The River Wild, Nick of Time, P2, Breakdown, Panic Room, Misery, Straw Dogs and its remake, Cape Fear, The Collector, Frailty, The Good Son and Funny Games.

Carroll is perhaps best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films: Rebecca ( 1940 ), Suspicion ( 1941 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and North by Northwest ( 1959 ).

* Strangers on a Train ( 1951 )

Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Patricia Highsmith.

Strangers on a Train marked something of a renaissance for Hitchcock after several years of low enthusiasm for his late-1940s output, and he threw himself into the micromanagement of some of its production.

Hitchcock was, above all, the master of great visual setpieces, and " erhaps the most memorable sequence in Strangers on a Train is the climactic fight on a berserk carousel.

Composer Dimitri Tiomkin was Jack Warner's choice to score Strangers on a Train.

Of greater interest to Mr. 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.

As with Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train is one of many Hitchcock films to explore the doppelgänger theme.

Upon its release in 1951, Strangers on a Train received mixed reviews.

The film holds a 97 % rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and Roger Ebert has called Strangers on a Train a " first-rate thriller " that he considers to be among the top five of Hitchcock's films.

Almar Haflidason was effusive about Strangers on a Train in 2001 at the BBC website: " Hitchcock's favourite device of an ordinary man caught in an ever-tightening web of fear plunges Guy into one of the director's most fiendishly effective movies.

Strangers on a Train was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography, which was overseen by director of photography Robert Burks.

Strangers on a Train was adapted for the radio program Lux Radio Theater 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.

Strangers on a Train has inspired film and TV projects with similar themes of criss-cross murder, often treated comically.

* BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play broadcast on 29 September 2011 was Strangers on a Film by Stephen Wyatt, which gives an imagined account of a series of meetings between Hitchcock ( Clive Swift ) and Raymond Chandler ( Patrick Stewart ) as they unsuccessfully attempt to create the screenplay for Strangers on a Train.

He released a jazz-swing album 2006, entitled Passing Strangers, and travelled on a " by request " tour from March to May 2006.

Strangers in the night ( 27 March 1972 )

* " Strangers on a Train "/" Can't Ever Decide " ( live )-Mushroom ( March 1980 )

* Final Vinyl EP: Let's Dance Now ( No Time To Be Strangers ) / Midnight Hour / By The Heart / Frankenstein Again ( March 1984: Clay )

In March 1988, Perfect Strangers moved to Friday, and the interstitials went with them.

Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for 8 seasons from March 25, 1986 to August 6, 1993 on the ABC television network.

In March 1988, midway through the season, ABC moved Perfect Strangers from its successful Wednesday-night slot to Friday nights at 8: 00 p. m. before Full House.

** ICv2 report that Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore is to end with issue 90, scheduled for publication in March 2007.