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The Stranger is a 1946 crime film and film noir directed by Orson Welles, who also stars alongside Loretta Young, Edward G. Robinson and Richard Long. The screenplay was written by Anthony Veiller, Victor Trivas, John Huston and Welles himself, with Sam Spiegel producing, Russell Metty as director of photography, and Bronisław Kaper composing the score. Made in English and Spanish, it is a black-and-white film set in a town in the 1940s, in Connecticut and South America, concerning a fugitive, a Nazi war criminal and loyalty.
The production company was RKO Pictures, along with International Pictures and The Haig Corporation. The film runs 95 minutes, had a budget of $1,034,000 and earned revenue of $3,220,000. It is rated Approved and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. The Stranger was distributed by RKO Pictures and Netflix.
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7.2An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
Cast
- Edward G. Robinson as Federal Agent Wilson
- Loretta Young as Mary Longstreet
- Orson Welles as Prof. Charles Rankin
- Philip Merivale as Judge Adam Longstreet
- Richard Long as Noah Longstreet
- Konstantin Shayne as Konrad Meinike
Themes
- nazi
- clock tower
- professor
- clock
- connecticut
- film noir
- black and white
- convert
- supreme court justice
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Ratings
IMDb
7.3/10
30,317 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
76/100
- Year
- 1946
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Orson Welles
- Written by
- Anthony Veiller
- Adaptation by
- Victor Trivas Decla Dunning
- Story by
- Victor Trivas
- Produced by
- S. P. Eagle
- Starring
- Orson Welles Loretta Young Edward G. Robinson Philip Merivale Richard Long Billy House
- Cinematography
- Russell Metty
- Edited by
- Ernest J. Nims
- Music by
- Bronisław Kaper
- Production company
- International Pictures
- Distributed by
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Release dates
- July 2, 1946 ( 1946-07-02 ) ( Los Angeles , Salt Lake City )
- Running time
- 95 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $1.034 million
- Box office
- $3.22 million , 931,868 admissions (France)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- film noir
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Spanish
- Main subject
- Nazis hunter
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Screenwriter
- Orson Welles
- Cast member
- Ethan Laidlaw
- Composer
- Bronisław Kaper
- Producer
- Sam Spiegel
- Production company
- RKO Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Russell Metty
- Narrative location
- South America
- Duration
- 91
- FilmAffinity ID
- 360018
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- The Stranger 1946 (2).jpg
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- Commons category
- The Stranger (1946 film)
- publication date
- 1946-07-02
- title
- The Stranger
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Story
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- set in environment
- town
- set in period
- 1940s
- set during recurring event
- autumn
- review score
- 76/100
- capital cost
- 1034000
- box office
- 3216000
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and (although uncredited) co-written by Orson Welles, starring himself along with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, it centers on war crimes investigator Wilson tracking high-ranking Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler to a Connecticut town. It is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust.
The film was nominated for the Golden Lion (then-called the ‘Grand International Prize’) at the 8th Venice International Film Festival. Screenwriter Victor Trivas received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Story. The film entered the public domain when its copyright was not renewed.
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