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The Stranger
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Synopsis
The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary (Loretta Young). One afternoon, an extremely nervous German gentleman named Meineke (Konstantin Shayne) 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 (Edward G. Robinson) pays a visit, posing as an antiques dealer. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Billy House Mr. Potter
Byron Keith Dr. Jeff Lawrence
Philip Merivale Judge Longstreet
Isabel O'Madigan Mrs. Lawrence
Edward G. Robinson Wilson
Konstantin Shayne Konrad Meinike
Martha Wentworth Sara
Loretta Young Mary Longstreet
Richard Long Noah Longstreet
Orson Welles Franz Kindler/Prof. Charles Rankin

Production Crew

Perry Ferguson Art Director
Russell Metty Cinematographer
Bronislau Kaper Composer (Music Score)
Michael Woulfe Costume Designer
Orson Welles Director
Ernest Nims Editor
Sam P. Eagle Producer
Sam Spiegel Producer
Anthony Veiller Screenwriter
Decla Dunning Screenwriter
John Huston Screenwriter
Orson Welles Screenwriter
Victor Trivas Screenwriter
Arthur Johns Sound/Sound Designer
Corson Jowett Sound/Sound Designer
Year: 1946
Runtime: 95
Country: USA
MPAA Rating: NR
Category: Feature

Genre
Thriller

Produced by
International Pictures

Release
by RKO Radio Pictures