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Country. United States. Language. English. Budget. $171,200 (estimated) 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. Modern research has shown that Nathanael West ...
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
Critics and fans agree: Stranger on the Third Floor is the little B picture that launched one of the greatest movements in cinema history: film noir. Peter L...
Rent Stranger on the Third Floor on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. When upstart journalist Michael Ward (John McGuire) testifies that he saw Joe Briggs ...
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- Peter Lorre
- Boris Ingster
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
Michael loses his confidence and feels remorse for his testimony accusing Joe. One night, Michael brings Jane to his room and his nosy neighbor Albert Meng brings the landlady to expel Jane from the boarding house. Michael threatens Meng and later he sees a stranger with bulging eyes on his floor that runs away from him.
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), an obscure B movie from RKO Studios, has its place in movie history as the first film noir. More than just a possible influence on the flood of dark, urban crime dramas about to follow en masse (as a B film, its "influence" on anyone at the time is debatable), it marked, as author Robert Porfirio has written, "a distinct break in style and substance with the ...
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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 film’s director and the visual style that some ...
