The story was presented on radio later in 1951 on CBS Theater with Ray Milland and Frank Lovejoy in the leads and Ruth Roman reprising her role as Anne.

The story was done again on radio in 1954 with Dana Andrews, Robert Cummings, and Virginia Mayo.

The movie was remade as Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969). In that version, Paul Burke plays a pro golfer who gets mixed up with a mentally unstable woman (Carol Lynley) who offers to kill his opponent if he will kill the psychiatrist who wants to have her committed.

Another version was made for TV as Once You Meet a Stranger (1996) with the genders of both the main characters reversed. Jacqueline Bisset plays a former child star whose husband won't give her a divorce. Theresa Russell is the woman who offers to kill the husband in exchange for the murder of the mother she hates.

The story - and the familiar Hitchcock nightmare mother figure - got a comic twist in Throw Momma from the Train (1987) with Billy Crystal and Danny DeVito as the would-be murderers. In this version, the plot is set in motion when teacher Crystal suggests to writing student DeVito that he watch a Hitchcock movie to learn the mechanics of a mystery thriller. DeVito watches Strangers on a Train and gets the inspiration to off Crystal's ex-wife and have his own obnoxious mother killed.

Strangers on a Train was featured in the Barry Levinson film Liberty Heights (1999).

There are three differences in the British version of the film: The first encounter between Bruno and Guy on the train is longer and features a more obvious homoerotic flirtation by Bruno; in the scene where Guy sneaks out of his apartment to go to Bruno's house, a shot of him opening a drawer to get the map Bruno sketched is added; the very last scene of Guy being recognized by a clergyman on a train was deleted.

Murder by strangulation is described, implied, or shown in 17 of Hitchcock's films.

John Frankenheimer paid homage to the scene of Bruno strangling Miriam shot as a reflection in her fallen glasses in his film The Young Savages (1961).

Because he died before filming was complete, the final shots of Walker's last film, My Son John (1952), were taken from Strangers on a Train.

by Rob Nixon & Jeff Stafford