The Stranger
An 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
Byron Keith
as Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence
Billy House
as Mr. Solomon Potter
Martha Wentworth
as Sara
David Bond
as Student (uncredited)
Reviews
TheCakerBaker
Excellent cinematography and camerawork as can be expected from Welles. Entertaining throughout. Watch if you're a fan of film noir...
John Chard
They searched the woods. I watched them, here, like God looking at little ants. We are in the college town of Harper, Connecticut, one day a man known only as Wilson arrives, he's a member of the War Crimes Commission, in short he's a Nazi Hunter. On his radar is the man thought to have invente...
CinemaSerf
This taut and suspenseful thriller finds a devilishly clever Edward G. Robinson ("Mr. Wilson") on the trail of the Nazi who allegedly devised the whole concept of mass annihilation in the concentration camps. Having released one of his erstwhile minions "Meinike", he hopes that he will lead to him t...
r96sk
A good movie, albeit one that finishes weaker than it started. I really enjoyed the set up of <em>'The Stranger'</em>, though once the cat is let out the bag events do move along at a notch below. The final 30 feels a little drawn out, admittedly only in a relative sense because it is still perfe...
