The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 5300 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #3 French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #4 Italian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #5 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian
01:31:00 | USA | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | PAL | 4:3 | 720x576 | 5300 kbps | 4.5Gb
Audio: #1 English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #2 German AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #3 French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #4 Italian AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps, #5 Spanish AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian
01:31:00 | USA | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne, Byron Keith, Billy House, Martha Wentworth, David Bond, John Brown, Neal Dodd, Nancy Evans, Fred Godoy, Joseph Granby, Ethan Laidlaw, Ruth Lee, Lillian Molieri, Isabel O'Madigan, Gabriel Peralta, Gerald Pierce, Robert Raison, Rebel Randall, Johnny Sands, Erskine Sanford, Pietro Sosso, Brother Theodore, Josephine Victor
The Stranger (1946)
Orson Welles portrays the character of Franz Kindler, a Nazi who, not long after the war, has taken a guise as an American professor. Edward G. Robinson portrays Mr. Wilson, the war crimes official who hunts him by releasing one of his former underlings to find the way back to his master.
Kindler is unrepentantly evil and deceptive. There is no conflict or remorse in him about his past, and his professed love for his new wife Mary (portrayed by Loretta Young) is totally fake, though he is satisfied to live that way as it suits his purposes. The pressure on him builds steadily as Mr. Wilson eliminates other potential suspects and steadily tightens the noose. Kindler's calm and assured and intelligent demeanor increasingly falters.
I found that Loretta Young gave the finest performance of these three principal actors. She is torn in a long battle between the competing virtues of loyalty to her husband and honesty and responsibility as she begins to sense the truth. Loyalty compels her to lie and make excuses and deny, even to herself. Not consciously accepting or understanding anything at first she nonetheless begins to fret and anguish, and she recoils at her husband's touch.
The 1946 black-and-white movie, which I viewed on a DVD from one of the multiple-movie sets from St. Claire Vision that had video and audio of okay quality, had nice dramatic camera work and very few flaws in the story. It was a bit difficult for me to believe that Mr. Wilson could zero in on Kindler at a dinner table, yet walk away thinking he had not found the guy. The ending could be regarded as overly dramatic. But then either of those sequences could be regarded as highlights of the film.
In all, I think that this is an artistic and very fine film, chilling and suspenseful
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The Stranger (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
