Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V. (2004 Video) User Reviews

Not a must-see, but still pretty interesting.

[planktonrules · 6/10 · 20 September 2010]

Oddly, on the title page for this DVD short on IMDb shows (VG)--which would indicate this is a video game. It is NOT but is an interview with Kasey Rogers, who recollects her experiences playing the murder victim from "Strangers on a Train". One of the most interesting revelations from her account is that the glasses that she wore in the film made her virtually blind in her scenes--and she explains how extras managed to help her avoid breaking her neck! The other is that despite good notices she received for this juicy performance, it didn't seem to do much to help her career! Overall, it's worth watching if you get a hold of the "Strangers on a Train" DVD set, but it's not exactly a must-see--just some mildly interesting recollections.

Nice Interview

[Michael_Elliott · 28 March 2012]

Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V. (2004)

*** (out of 4)

This eight-minute featurette features an interview with Kasey Rogers who was the victim in Alfred Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. Rogers, who was working for Paramount under the name Laura Elliot, discusses how she got loaned out and then goes into detail about her scenes in the movie. She talks about how Hitchcock let her select the glasses that her character would wear in the film and she also states that this left her blind and she needed the help of Robert Walker to get through her scenes. She then gives a lot of detail about her murder sequence and how Hitchcock wanted it shot and what she and Wagner had to do to pull it off. She talks about how disappointed she was that the movie really didn't change her career and she admits that this bothers her. This is a pretty good interview because not only does it give you a great idea of the shooting of the murder sequence but it also shows what it was like to be loaned out to someone like Hitchcock and then the next week your back doing nothing. Rogers comes off very charming and her honesty about her feelings was a major plus.

She was in a silk dress . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 29 September 2013]

. . . while her crew sported parkas to ward off the frigid night-time chill as actress "Laura Elliott" a.k.a. Kasey Rogers' character Miriam breathed her last near the exit of The Tunnel of Love. Ironically, this scene was filmed from the P.O.V. of Miriam's fallen pop bottle eye glasses. Kasey relates during this DVD extra interview that she was virtually blind while wearing this prop, meaning the actress herself could see clearly only as her character expired (recalling 1 Corinthians, 13:12--"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then, face to face"). This circumstance makes Miriam's murder scene particularly diabolical, intentionally or not. Incedibly, doomed-to-die-young actor Robert Walker, who portrayed Miriam's "criss-cross" strangler Bruno, REQUIRED prescription glasses for adequate vision, but his character was written as a killer with 20-20 vision in the days before contacts. So, between takes of choking poor Miriam, the more warmly dressed Walker told Kasey their whole episode amounted to "the blind leading the blind."