What a sad and touching and human story

A movie you can watch scores of times and still find new things, it's actually mind-boggling.

I watched this film last night its sad to see he died not long after making it....R.I.P .Mr Walker

Two very talented actors.

I loved Farley Granger...... He was so popular that ITALIAN DIRECTOR Luchino Visconti cast him as the lead in the great Italian film SENSO in c. 1944

Great man great name

Yeah, Farley was always fun to watch on screen. I remember him on "As The World Turns" as the mysterious Earl.

TY the upload, I only wish there was more to savor! :-)

Robert Vaughn looked so much like Robert Walker!

Hitchcock got walker !! Genius

Love it sad though

I wish Dr. Hunter on Autopsy would do a segment using all his medical & psychological records, and come to a conclusion.

Walker was amazing in strangers on a train. I always felt so bad for him. His wife, who was an actress, left him for a Hollywood producer which sparked his drunkenness and erratic behavior. He died when he was only 30-32. 💔

Despite his problems and short career,Robert Walker was in a varied range of films including war,western,comedy and even musicals? His lead role with Judy Garland in 'Under The Clock' is memorable and so is his turn as composer Jerome Kern in 'Till The Clouds Roll By'. He starred with Burt Lancaster in 'Vengeance Valley' just before 'Strangers On A Train'. His son,Robert Walker Jnr died a few years ago aged 79. I have never seen a son that looked exactly like his father as him-an absolute ringer😳😯

I hate the intimation that Robert Walker was gay. Farley Granger was, but RW was deeply in love with Jennifer Jones whom he married in NY when they were students at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. They were both called to Hollywood, she being chosen by David O. Selznick to star in "The Song of Bernadette," and he for many roles. Selznick became infatuated with JJ and promised to make her the greatest star ever. He divorced his wife, the daughter of Louis B Mayer, head of MGM, and JJ was ambitious and divorced RW, taking their two small boys, whom he adored. Selznick then cast JJ and RW opposite each other, during their separation and before she married Selznick, as tragic young lovers in the wartime film, "Since You Went Away", which was cruelly heartbreaking for RW. He was a devastated man. If you ever come across the book, "Starcrossed", by Beverly Linet, in a store that sells old books, read it. It will break your heart, too. He was only about 32 when he died. He was a popular and successful actor whose whose life was destroyed by a powerful man's obsession. BTW, RW then briefly married but it couldn't last. He did not die from alcoholism or a drug overdose, but from a sedative injection given to him by his doctor. RW didn't want it. He said it would kill him, and it did. Such a tragedy.

rip

But the laugh here is that Farley was so far below Walker as an actor. He respected Walker? Yeah, me too!

He struck me for his resemblance with Ioan Gruffud in regards of looks. Utterly stunning beauties. Must see his other films besides Strangers..

Frankly it does not matter whether he was gay, straight,, or bi-curious. Straight men sometimes try things out with other men and it does not make them gay. It does not make them even bi-sexual. Men just experiment sometimes. In any case he was a very good actor.

On the night of August 28, 1951, Walker's housekeeper reportedly found Walker in an emotional state. She called the actor's psychiatrist, Frederick Hacker, who arrived and administered amobarbital for sedation. Walker had allegedly been drinking before the outburst, and it is believed the combination of amobarbital and alcohol caused him to lose consciousness and stop breathing. Efforts to resuscitate Walker failed and he was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. He was aged 32.

Granger considered himself bisexual, he had relationships with women as well as men - just because he settled down with a male partner for the last years of his life doesn't automatically mean that he was just gay. Robert Walker was deeply in love with his first wife Jennifer Jones and was a very troubled man offscreen. I have never heard anything about him being bisexual - it's possible I suppose. I think he just didn't want to be alone (as Farley talked about it here).

Walker was in the middle of a power play with Selznick who fancied his wife Phyllis Isley (Jennifer Jones) In consequence he had a breakdown but worked on the film during this breakdown. Ultimately Selznick probably sent in the `men in white` to terminate Walker as he died when fighting restraint. The sedation either OD-ed Walker or he died because of sedation complications ie alcohol. Hitch was obviously selling Granger on the role as he really wanted Gene Kelly (a terrible person) who attended the same Catholic church as Hitch in BH. Hitch had asked Kelly and Kelly refused, pouting: `Why did he ask me?` Anyone who knows the inside story of the MInnelli-Kelly-Garland affair will know precisely why and why Kelly should have played it. My G-d he would have been perfect!

I think the fact that both of them were gay in real life, but having to hide it at the time, was something you can feel through the screen, Hitchcock must have loved having them play these characters because of all the gay undertones. See "The Celluloid Closet" for more about it.....a fine documentary

So many actors don't know how to use a mic.

Interesting.... Hitchcock cast a crazy man to play the part of a crazy man in his movie.