Robert Walker

That mostly was a tactic to get everybody to learn their lines, because I think sometimes too playful an environment can prevent people from actually learning what the script is.

But once everybody has their character down then I love to let them go wild with John we we have this language of old movies and we kept on talking about Jimmy Stewart and Harvey or W.C. Fields there was that actor John that you were talking about who did this who snapped above his head oh Robert Walker

he was a great actor he was in um strange strangers on a train right The black and white movie, Robert Walker.

And he had a sad life because he was married to Jennifer Jones, who was a beautiful actress and he had a kid.

And then she got a movie with David O. Selznick and he basically stole his wife.

I have never read this book, right? No, actually, they're both equally gay in their origins because the original was like a gay fucking true crime story.

Anyway, it stars Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, and Robert Walker.

The story concerns two strangers who meet on a train, spoiler alert, one of whom is a psychopath who suggests that they exchange murders so that neither will be caught.

The film's score was composed by Dimitri Atiyankin.

Thus begins the most toxic train ride since the Orient Express.

The sensible shoes belong to Guy Haynes, played by Farley Granger, a rising amateur tennis star with political ambitions, a senator's daughter for a girlfriend, and a cheating wife back home he desperately wants to divorce.

The loud shoes belong to Bruno Antony, played by Robert Walker.

a wealthy, unemployed mama's boy with a lobster necktie and a tie pin that literally says Bruno in case he forgets.

He's somewhat ordinary, a bit of a pushover, and he happens to meet this incredibly charming, wealthy, flamboyant psychopath named Bruno Antony.

Played unforgettably by Robert Walker.

Unforgettably.

They meet purely by chance on a train, and through this seemingly innocuous, casual conversation in the dining car, it comes out that they both have people in their lives who are causing them immense grief.

Edith Sampson, 1901, the first Black delegate appointed to the United Nations.

Robert Walker, 1918, actor in The Clock, The Man Who Walked Alone, and The Silence Went Away.

Mm.

Uh, we got Dorothy Bolden, 1923, founder of the National Domestic Workers Union.

He does not say a single negative word about Bruno

... played brilliantly by Robert Walker in the film.

Right.

Hitchcock picks apart the protagonists, but the murderous, captivating antagonist escapes his perfectionist wrath completely, which brings us right back to the core finding of the Collider ranking.

And, you know, I think the performances are, are great.

You know, one interesting thing about this, I actually, um, this is something I didn't really know until I started getting into this, uh, episode, but Robert Walker, who plays Charlie in this episode- Uh, this came out, uh, I think it was in Grace Lee Whitney's, like, uh, autobiography or whatever th- that she wrote.

Uh, she mentioned this episode.

Apparently, when he was on the set for this episode, he wouldn't talk to any of the cast at all, and the reason was he wanted to maintain this idea that Charlie doesn't know how to interact with people, and he's an outsider.

Here you go.

Stars in tonight's story: Gene Hackman, Mark Miller, Patricia Smith, John Randolph, Wayne Rogers, Anne Francis, Charles Drake, Dabney Coleman, Don Gordon, Russell Johnson, Harold Gould, Linda Day, Malcolm Atterbury, Ralph Bellamy, Marlin Mason, Murray Hamilton, Sally Kellerman, James Callahan, Alfred Ryder, Karen Black, Pat Hingle, Zina Bethune, Roger Perry, Shirley Knight, and special guest star Kevin McCarthy, Donna Winter, Larry Gates, Kent Smith, William Windom, Eduard Franz, with special guest star Michael Rennie, Barbara Hershey, Edward Asner, Diane Baker, J.D. Cannon, James Daly, John Milford, Roddy McDowell, Lawrence Naismith, Robert Walker, Lynn Loring, R.G. Armstrong, Jack Warden, Susan Oliver, David Scheiner, Murray Madison, James Whitmore, William Tallman, Milton Selzer, and special guest star Susan Strasberg, Peter Graves, Joanne Linville, John Ericson, Edward Andrews, Lynn McCarthy, and special guest star Suzanne Pleshette.

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