All aboard for a journey where chance, obsession, and murder share the same carriage. This week on The Shiver Show, we feature the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of Strangers on a Train, first broadcast in December 1951 — a chilling tale of coincidence and consequence drawn from Patricia Highsmith’s acclaimed novel.

The film version, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and released just months earlier in June 1951, stunned audiences with its sleek black-and-white cinematography and eerie psychological tension. The radio version captures that same dread with the power of voice, sound, and imagination.

Ray Milland stars as Guy Haines, a handsome, well-mannered tennis player whose fateful encounter with the unsettling Bruno Antony, played superbly by Frank Lovejoy, changes everything. Bruno, with his unnerving charm and infamous line, “I admire people who do things,” proposes the unthinkable — a murder swap, his father for Guy’s unfaithful wife. No motive, no connection, no trace.

Ruth Roman as Anne, Patricia Hitchcock as Barbara, and Eunice and Charles as Bruno’s peculiar parents bring eerie depth to the story’s shadowed world. Originally recorded before a live audience (and three Lux Soap commercials that Mary has removed), this production distills Hitchcock’s visual tension into pure audio suspense. The result is a taut, compelling ride through guilt, fear, and moral decay. We think you will love Strangers on a Train.

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