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The Stranger
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Rating: - Symbolic Warning
This 1946 film seems to use high-speed (and high-contrast) film, which results in a stark effect. It is also a low-budget film, comparable to some 'film noir' of the 1940s. It is about the search for a Nazi war criminal, hiding in plain sight. Franz speaks American without an accent, and shows up as a new teacher in a rural college. He romances and marries the no longer young daughter of an important man (Chief Justice). But another war criminal, who got religion, searches for Franz. Franz realizes ... Read More
Rating: - Look at it positvely!
"The Stranger" is set in an eponymous "small New England town" during the immediate aftermath of World War 2. It is framed around a Nazi who is allowed to escape in the hope of his leading War Crimes investigators to a bigger fish. An appropriately repulsive Orson Welles plays the quarry. He is leading an outwardly respectable life as a professor. Welles even marries Loretta Young-1940s Hollywood most basic "nice American girl". This is the background as the WC detective, Edward G. Robinson, arrives ... Read More
Rating: - Little-known Welles
This is probably Orson Welles' least-remembered film, though paradoxically it was the only one that achieved any real box office success when it was first released. In backing a Welles project most studios had to wait a decade a two for the cult fans to pick it up and turn a profit. Here Edward G. Robinson is a mysterious investigator on the trail of a Nazi fugitive happily ensconced in a small American town. The interplay between these two wonderful actors drives the whole show, although Robinson ... Read More
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