This omission from our list prompted more comments than any other. Based on a novel of the same name, Strangers on a Train is the tale of a tennis player who meets a psychopath on a train and they agree to “exchange murders”. Tennis features heavily as Guy, the more naive of the protagonists, is forced to rush through a match in order to avoid being framed. stardust9 commented that he’d “always thought it was the classic tennis movie”. Malvu70 particularly enjoys the scene where “the crowd is shown left righting their heads to follow the ball until the camera rests on Robert Walker who is staring unmoving at Farley Granger”.
Readers suggest the 10 best tennis moments in culture
