Strangers on a Train
Cook then worked with Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, on "Stage Fright" (1950) and "Strangers on a Train" (1951). Cook's treatment for "Strangers on a Train" is usually given credit for heightening the film's homoerotic subtext (only hinted at in the novel) and the softening of the villain, Bruno, from the coarse alcoholic of the book into a dapper, charming mama's boy.