Movies Online, Cartoons, Documentaries
/ Movies Online

The Stranger (English Subtitled)

Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Mr. Wilson is an agent of the United Nations War Crimes Commission who is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler, a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him. He has left no clue to his identity except "a hobby that almost amounts to a mania-clocks."

Wilson releases Kindler's former associate Meinike, hoping the man will lead him to Kindler. Wilson follows Meinike to a small town in Connecticut, but loses him before he meets with Kindler. Kindler has assumed a new identity as "Charles Rankin", and has become a teacher at a local prep school.

He is about to marry Mary Longstreet, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Adam Longstreet, and is involved in repairing the town's 400-year-old Habrecht-style clock mechanism with religious automata that crowns the belfry of a church in the town square.

Meinike attacks Wilson, leaving him for dead, and meets Kindler. Meinike is repentant and has become a Christian, and begs Kindler to confess his own crimes. Instead, Kindler strangles Meinike, who might expose him.

Wilson begins investigating newcomers to the small town. Due to Rankin and Mary's marriage, he does not suspect Rankin - until Rankin says conversationally that since Karl Marx was a Jew, he was not a German. Even so, not having witnessed the meeting with Meinike, he still has no proof.

Only Mary knows that Meinike came to meet her husband. To get her to admit this, Wilson must convince her that her husband is a criminal—before Kindler decides to eliminate the threat to him by killing her. Kindler's facade begins to unravel when Red, the family dog, discovers Meinike's body. To further protect his secret, Kindler poisons Red.

Meanwhile, Mary begins to suspect her husband is not being honest with her. He admits to killing Meinike and Red, but claims Meinike was in town to blackmail her and her father. Mary still loves him and wants to protect him in any way she can; she helps by lying about Meinike.

Then Wilson shows her graphic footage of Nazi concentration camps and explains how Kindler developed the idea of genocide. She is torn between her love and her desire to learn the truth. Meanwhile, Kindler tries to arrange a fatal "accident" for Mary, but she discovers the plot.

Finally accepting the truth, she dares her husband to kill her face to face. Kindler tries, but is prevented by the arrival of Wilson and Mary's brother, and escapes from the house.

Kindler flees into the church belfry, followed by Mary and then Wilson. Meanwhile most of the town, hearing the repaired clock bell, has arrived outside the building.

At the top of the tower, Kindler pulls a gun and a struggle ensues. Mary ends up with the gun and fires. Kindler is shot. He staggers outside to the belfry's clock face, and is impaled by the sword of one of the moving clock figures. Weakened by his injuries, he falls to his death. (Wikipedia)

Movie Info

Directed by: Orson Welles
Written by: Anthony Veiller (screenplay), Victor Trivas (adaptation), Decla Dunning (adaptation); Uncredited: Orson Welles, John Huston
Story by: Victor Trivas
Produced by: S. P. Eagle

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
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 (Los Angeles, Salt Lake City)
Running time: 95 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English, English subtitled




YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

During World War II, J. Carrol Naish plays an optometrist who is really a Nazi spy. A book of his that he uses to decode a Nazi spy code is stolen from him while he was walking on the San Francisco waterfront at night.
Slightly Honorable is a 1939 American film directed by Tay Garnett.
The Animal Kingdom is based upon a comedy of manners play of the same name by Philip Barry.
Abner decides to build a chemistry lab in his own basement. Soon he develops a new improved formula for manufacturing synthetic rubber. His partner Lum Edwards wants them to go to Washington D.C. to present their work to Marshall. Comedy.
A dangerous gang of counterfeiters are transporting illegal money from the United States into Canada concealed inside frozen trout.
Seaman Johnny Drake, on shore leave, meets Mora in a jazz club. Mora, who lives in an apartment above the marina merry-go-round, and Johnny fall for each other. Everyone around them is wary of the romance, as her previous two lovers have died mysteriously.

© 2000-2024 Titi Tudorancea TV | Titi Tudorancea® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy | Contact