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Title: The Stranger Year: 1946 Rating: **** |
Orson Welles plays an edgy and intense but, on the surface, affable, intellectual, quote-spouting teacher about to marry the beautiful daughter of a renown judge in a
small town epitomizing post-war, postcard America....
Here where he's the perfect man:
brilliant, handsome, and determined, with only one drawback — he's a
former Nazi; on top of which, he still believes in "the cause" and that it could possibly sustain...
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER with Loretta Young |
But he
keeps this secret from everyone, especially Edward G. Robinson as a dogged, determined yet equally sophisticated FBI agent posing as an
antique collector (which Robinson was in real life), who soon discovers the real identity but needs proof before moving in...
In-between there's a fair share of unrealistic, melodramatic situations; and scenes bridging the second and third act tend to drag, especially Welles attempting to keep his poor, unstable wife by his ever-crumbling side...
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Orson Welles directs signature noir shadows for THE STRANGER
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Yet the detailed framing and exquisite camerawork, especially Welle's use of shadows and the climax
involving a clock tower adorned with sword-wielding angel statures, makes this, if anything else, a visual
masterpiece: and one of the few box-office successes in the maverick
auteur's artistically brilliant but financially unsuccessful
directorial career...
And has a nifty side-cast including a young idealistic (brother of the bride) Richard Long; Welles's redeemed hence doomed Nazi sycophant Konstantin Shayne; a goofy albeit likable Billy House housing checkers with town gossip; and Joseph Cotten doppelganger Byron Keith as Welles's best man.
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Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten lookalike Byron Keith in THE STRANGER
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles's great lighting of Loretta Young in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER with Billy House
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Richard Long in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER with Loretta Young
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Konstantin Shayne gets shot in THE STRANGER
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Edward G. Robinson in THE STRANGER with Billy House
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Edward G. Robinson in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles's THE STRANGER
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Edward G. Robinson in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Edward G. Robinsonin THE STRANGER |
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Richard Long in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER with Billy House
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Loretta Young in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles directs THE STRANGER |
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Orson Welles in THE STRANGER |
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Edward G. Robinson in THE STRANGER |
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