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When upstart journalist Michael Ward (John McGuire) testifies that he saw Joe Briggs (Elisha Cook Jr.) at the scene of a murder, Briggs is jailed and sentenced to death. Later, Michael's ...
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Stranger on the Third Floor Reviews. Thanks to its performances, all perfect, and its staging, "Stranger on the Third Floor" is a discovery that still surprises more than...
Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, and Charles Waldron, and featuring Elisha Cook Jr. It was written by Frank Partos .
Stranger on the Third Floor: Directed by Boris Ingster. With Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron. An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat, and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Boris Ingster
- 1940-08-16
Unsurprisingly for a B picture, critics at the time were generally loathe to see Stranger on the Third Floor's unusual look as an artistic achievement. The New York Times ' Bosley Crowther dismissed it as a "pile [of] sound effects and tricked-up photography."
- Boris Ingster, James Casey
- Peter Lorre
Film. Reviews. Dec 31, 1939 11:00pm PT. Stranger on the Third Floor. Yarn concerns a stern newspaper reporter whose testimony proves the circumstantial evidence that convicts an...
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Generally regarded as one of the first films to combine all the noir elements (visual, narrative, thematic) into an ideal specimen of the style, Boris Ingster’s Stranger on the Third Floor features one of the most visually stunning dream sequences of the cycle; released a full year before Citizen Kane, the film quite likely influenced that ...