Strangers on a Train (1951)

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Strangers on a Train (1951) with full length commentary track
103 minute "preview" version of the film
37 minute "Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic" documentary
13 minute "Strangers on a Train: An Appreciation by M Night Shyamalan" featurette

Strangers on a Train (1951)
- length: 100½ minutes (01:40:39)
- audio: English mono (DD1.0) and French mono (DD1.0)
- subtitles: English, French, and Spanish
- ratio: 1.33:1
- bitrate: 5.91 Mb/sec

Full length commentary track
- featuring Peter Bogdanovich, Joseph Stefano ("Psycho" screenwriter), Andrew Wilson (biographer of Patricia Highsmith), and others
- audio: English (DD2.0)
- subtitles: none

Alternative "preview" version of the film
- length: 103 minutes (01:42:48)
- audio: English (DD1.0)
- subtitles: English, French, and Spanish
- ratio: 1.33:1

Theatrical trailer
- length: 2½ minutes (00:02:31)
- audio: English (DD2.0)
- subtitles: none
- ratio: 1.33:1

"Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic" documentary
- featuring Peter Bogdanovich, Bill Krohn (author of "Hitchcock at Work"), Andrew Wilson (biographer of Patricia Highsmith), Richard Schickel (film historian), Robert Walker Jnr, Robert Osborne (film historian), Farley Granger, Patricia Hitchcock, Mary Stone (Hitchcock's granddaughter), Joseph Stefano ("Psycho" screenwriter), and Olivia Douglas (wife of Dimitri Tiomkin)
- length: 36½ minutes (00:36:39)
- audio: English (DD2.0)
- subtitles: none
- ratio: 1.33:1

"Strangers on a Train: An Appreciation by M Night Shyamalan" featurette
- featuring M Night Shyamalan
- length: 12½ minutes (00:12:43)
- audio: English (DD2.0)
- subtitles: none
- ratio: 1.33:1

"Strangers on a Train: The Victim's P.O.V." featurette
- featuring Kasey Rogers
- length: 7½ minutes (00:07:19)
- audio: English (DD2.0)
- subtitles: none
- ratio: 1.33:1

"The Hitchcocks on Hitch" featurette
- featuring Mary Stone (Hitchcock's granddaughter), Katie Fiala (Hitchcock's granddaughter), Patricia Hitchcock, and Tere Carrubba (Hitchcock's granddaughter)
- length: 11½ minutes (00:11:17)
- audio: English (DD2.0)
- subtitles: none
- ratio: 1.33:1

"Alfred Hitchcock's Historical Meeting", a vintage newsreel
- length: 1 minute (00:01:05)
- audio: silent
- subtitles: none
- ratio: 1.33:1

This DVD is also available in the following box sets and collections:

The second DVD contains the "preview" version of the film (01:42:48), referred to as the "British" version on the previous release.
DVD Decrypter reports the DVD as being encoded for regions 1, 2, 3 & 4.
DVD Decrypter reports the DVD as having Regional Coding Enhancement (RCE) protection.