The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles.
It was Welles’s third completed feature film as director. A drama about a war crimes investigator who tracks a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a New England town, it is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust.
The original story by Victor Trivas was nominated for an Academy Award.
IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
War crimes commissioner Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) has a mission to track down the errant Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice. One way is to use Konrad Meinike (Konstantin Shayne) as bait by freeing him and following him to his contacts. Meinike, driven by guilt over his actions during the war has become a Christian. Once free he immediately goes to a small Connecticut town and makes contact with his former Nazi associate Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) who is posing as Professor Charles Rankin. Kindler is hiding out as a teacher with a lovely new wife Mary (Loretta Young). When Meineke arrives in town to appeal to Kindler to give himself up, the professor responds by strangling his old associate and hiding the body in the nearby woods. Kindler believes himself safe because no one has an idea of his former identity. Wilson arrives in town following Meinike, posing as an antiques dealer, and starts sniffing out the dangerous Kindler and a confrontation of wills and cunning ensue.
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This was a well acted movie. Pretty good and surely one of the few great movies from the 40's. Its a crazy plot but thats okay. Its one of the few morally legitimate movies portraying the holocaust. it just is about the unjustified murder of people. Not about the contentions between native and Jew in nations.
another great character played by Edward G Robinson and another amazing film by Orson Welles.
Loretta Young is the best.
I remember watching this on TV when you only had so many channels to choose from.could never imagine sitting on my phone watching this.I love EGR.His presence in movies was so suttle He didn't have to say much just the faces he made you knew what he was thinking.
Why is this version 3 minutes 45 seconds longer? Also, what does Wilson say at the end? Sounds like "weekday in hopper."
Spéciale dédi à François Thomas #P3
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1942 The U.S had sent my father and his brothers my Uncles to War and when it was over 50 million people had died… Example= 500 football Stadiums filled with 100,000 people in each Stadium Equals 50 million lives/deaths…