Editor’s Pick: “Strangers on a Train”
By Daily Bruin Staff
July 21, 2002 9:00 p.m.
Unlike films about baseball (“Field of Dreams,”
“Bull Durham”), basketball (“Like Mike,”
“He Got Game”), football (“Any Given
Sunday,” “Remember the Titans”) or even golf
(“The Legend of Bagger Vance,” “Happy
Gilmore”), not many high-profile films have been made
concerning the sport of tennis. In fact, to find a well-known film
where tennis is a major plot point you’d have to go back to
the 1951 Hitchcock classic, “Strangers on a Train.”
The film is about a Sampras-like tennis darling who is
unwittingly involved with a murderer. Aside from the masterful
suspense and a chase scene on a merry-go-round, the film is
interesting as it provides a glimpse into “old tennis,”
the heavy uniforms and blocky body movements.
