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THE CREEPIEST.(Ripley's Game)(Movie Review)

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| February 16, 2004 | Lane, Anthony | COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Is there any place, in the world of Patricia Highsmith, for the non-weird? Not only do crooked souls seem more at ease there than the straight; after a while, the air grows so corrupting that the straight start behaving like the crooked. Highsmith's first novel, "Strangers on a Train," was given the full treatment by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951, and nobody who has seen it can forget the frictionless perversion of Robert Walker in the role of Bruno--the charming fellow-passenger who suggests murder as if he were offering a light. But Farley Granger, too, as the tennis star to whom the offer is made, becomes no less disquieting. He begins as a handsome patsy, but somehow ...

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