The Stranger

1946
9.0
The Stranger
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Title: The Stranger

Original Title: The Stranger

Year: 1946

Info

  • Country: USA
  • Length: 95 Minutes (1 hour 35 min)
  • Genre: Suspense Thriller Drama
  • Age rating: PG (Parental guidance)

Release Dates

  • UK: August 25 1946
  • United States: May 25 1946

Plot

A college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary. One afternoon, an extremely nervous German gentleman named Meineke arrives in town. Professor Rankin seems disturbed--but not unduly so--by Meineke's presence. He invites the stranger for a walk in the woods, and as they journey farther and farther away from the center of town, we learn that kindly professor Rankin is actually notorious Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. Conscience-stricken by his own genocidal wartime activities, Meineke has come to town to beg his ex-superior Kindler to give himself up. The professor responds by brutally murdering his old associate. If Kindler believes himself safe--and he has every reason to do so, since no one in town, especially Mary, has any inkling of his previous life--he will change his mind in a hurry when mild-mannered war crimes commissioner Wilson pays a visit, posing as an antiques dealer.

Cast

Director:

Orson Welles Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Professor Charles Rankin

Loretta Young

Loretta Young

Mary Longstreet

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