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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 .
A film-noir crime drama about a reporter who witnesses a murder and becomes the prime suspect himself. Starring Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook Jr., and Margaret Tallichet, directed by Boris Ingster.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Boris Ingster
- 1940-08-16
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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- Peter Lorre
- Boris Ingster
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
A reporter is the key witness in the trial of a man accused of killing a café owner, but he doubts his guilt and becomes a suspect himself. He dreams of murdering his neighbor and a stranger, who turns out to be the real killer.
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 Lorre plays the eerie title role in...
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 film noir expert analyzes the first film noir, starring Peter Lorre as a psychopath and Elisha Cook Jr. as an innocent man. The review praises the expressionist shadows, the dream sequence, and the voiceover narration.
