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The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Welles. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, [4] it centers on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town.
The Stranger: Directed by Orson Welles. With Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale. An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Orson Welles
- 1946-08
The Stranger (1946) The Stranger (1946) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis Immediately following World War II, ex-Nazi Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) is living under a false identity as a teacher ...
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- Edward G. Robinson
- Orson Welles
- Mystery & Thriller
Charles Rankin is a professor in a respectable Connecticut town about to marry the daughter of a U.S. Supreme Court justice. But his name is fake and his past is filthy. An earnest convert to Christianity, who once ran a Nazi concentration camp, is capable of exposing him. So "Rankin" kills this little old man and buries his body in the forest.
Stranger, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Marx Was A Jew Under-cover Nazi hunter Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), dining with Mary (Loretta Young) and her brothers (Philip Merivale, Richard Long), is just about convinced that her professor husband (writer-director Orson Welles) is no war criminal, in The Stranger, 1946.
- Orson Welles, Gladys Hill, Jack Voglin
- Edward G. Robinson
Jul 2, 2022 · On July 2, 1946, director-star Orson Welles unveiled noir film The Stranger in Los Angeles. The film went on to earn a nomination in the writing category at the 19th Academy Awards.
The Stranger (1946) Depending on your point of view, Orson Welles is either peripheral to, or central to film noir; peripheral in that he didn’t make many films that are considered to be noir; central because of the influence of Citizen Kane, made when he was only 25 years old. While not a film noir, the chiaroscuro lighting of Citizen Kane ...
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