Once You Meet a Stranger (1996)
1h 36m
Running Time
September 25, 1996Release Date
Once You Meet a Stranger (1996)
1h 36m
Running Time
September 25, 1996Release Date
Plot.
This television remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" (1951) follows the same story, but has changed the genders of the lead characters from male to female. Sheila Gaines is a former child star whose first husband is unwilling to give her a divorce. A chance meeting with Margo Anthony on a train leads to a conversation where the mentally unstable Margo, who hates her mother, suggests that they swap murders, so as to solve their problems. Although she thinks nothing of the conversation, Sheila's life takes a surprising turn when her husband is murdered by Margo. Now Margo wants Sheila to do her part of "the deal." With the police on her tail and Margo constantly in her face, Sheila must find a way out of this tangled web.
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Cast & Crew.
Jacqueline Bisset
Sheila Gaines
Nick Mancuso
Aaron
Theresa Russell
Margo Anthony
Art Bonilla
Porter
Kathryne Dora Brown
Skeptic
Tommy Lee Wallace
Director
Celeste Holm
Clara
Patricia Highsmith
Writer
Mimi Kennedy
Connie
Whitfield Cook
Writer
Richard Doyle
Mr. Anthony
Raymond Chandler
Writer
Robert Desiderio
Andy Stahl
Czenzi Ormonde
Writer
Philip L. Parslow
Producer
Anne Gee Byrd
Judge Lea Cole
Details.
Wiki.
Once You Meet a Stranger is a 1996 American thriller television film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. It is a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film Strangers on a Train, based on the 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith. In the remake, the genders of the principal characters have been switched from male to female. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Theresa Russell, and premiered on CBS on September 25, 1996.