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The Stranger DVD 1946 / Directed by Orson Welles / Starring: Edward. G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merrivale / Special Feature: Full-length Commentary

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The Stranger DVD 1946 / Directed by Orson Welles / Starring: Edward. G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merrivale / Special Feature: Full-length Commentary

UPC 5060000401127

REGION 0 PAL DVD (All regions)

MADE IN USA

AUDIO: English 2.0

TOTAL RUNTIME: 95 MINUTES

 

English Summary:

The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles. It is Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, about a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut 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. The film entered the public domain when its copyright was not renewed.

Mr. Wilson of the United Nations War Crimes Commission is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler, a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him, with no clue left to his identity except "a hobby that almost amounts to a mania—clocks."

Wilson releases Kindler's former associate Meinike, hoping the man will lead him to Kindler. Wilson follows Meinike to the United States, to the town of Harper, Connecticut, but loses him before he meets with Kindler. Kindler has assumed a new identity and is known locally as "Charles Rankin," and has become a prep school teacher. He is about to marry Mary Longstreet, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Adam Longstreet, and is involved in repairing the town's 400-year-old Habrecht-style clock mechanism with religious automata that crowns the belfry of a church in the town square.

 

Cast

  • Edward G. Robinson as Mr. Wilson
  • Loretta Young as Mary Longstreet Rankin
  • Orson Welles as Franz Kindler, also known as Professor Charles Rankin
  • Philip Merivale as Judge Adam Longstreet
  • Richard Long as Noah Longstreet
  • Konstantin Shayne as Konrad Meinike
  • Byron Keith as Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence
  • Billy House as Mr. Potter
  • Martha Wentworth as Sara
  • Isabel O'Madigan as Mrs. Lawrence
  • Pietro Sosso as Mr. Peabody
  • Erskine Sanford as Party Guest[5]:197
  • Theodore Gottlieb as Farbright (not in released version)[5]:197

 

 

Directed by Orson Welles
Produced by Sam Spiegel
Screenplay by
  • Anthony Veiller
  • Decla Dunning
  • Uncredited:
  • John Huston
  • Orson Welles
Story by Victor Trivas
Starring
  • Edward G. Robinson
  • Loretta Young
  • Orson Welles
Music by Bronisław Kaper
Cinematography Russell Metty
Production
company
International Pictures
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
(theatrical)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer(via United Artists)
(current)
Release date
  • July 2, 1946 (Los Angeles, Salt Lake City)[1]
Running time
95 minutes
Country United States
Language English

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