Midnight Pals: The Tale of the Strangers on a Train
Canavan Connolly for Bruno
Minor role (6 lines). A main character in Highsmith's Strangers on a Train (perhaps better known in the form of Alfred Hitchcock's film adaptation), but only actually appears in a post-credit scene with Guy that is a parody of the ending of Some Like it Hot, in which Bruno wants to ride off into the sunset (by train) and get married. Old-timey 1950s mid-Atlantic movie star voice. A little sinister and slightly camp. Perhaps, but not necessarily, an impression of Robert Walker as Bruno in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.
Guy and Bruno are being represented by Highsmith using snails on a train set, but in this scene they are both played as the human characters within the world of the story, until the punchline in which Guy reveals himself to be a snail (but Bruno remains human).
- male adult
- american
- Mid-Atlantic
(IN RESPONSE TO GUY ASKING, NOW THAT THEY'VE COMPLETED THE PERFECT DOUBLE MURDER TOGETHER, WHAT WILL THEY DO NOW?) Well, Guy, given all the homoerotic subtext in this story, we ride our train into the sunset and get married.
(GUY GIVES SEVERAL EXCUSES WHY THEY CAN'T GET MARRIED. BRUNO HAS AN ANSWER TO EACH OF THEM.) Why not? (GUY SAYS THEY'RE BOTH MEN AND IT'S 1951) We'll have an unofficial ceremony. (GUY SAYS HE HAS A TERRIBLE PAST) I forgive you. (GUY SAYS HE CAN'T HAVE CHILDREN) We'll adopt.
(GUY FINALLY REVEALS HIS TRUE SELF AND THE TRUE REASON HE CAN'T MARRY BRUNO, WHICH IS THAT GUY IS A SNAIL. BRUNO IS CHEERILY OBLIVIOUS.) Well... nobody's perfect!