Actors - The Stranger

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The Stranger is a 1946 film noir/drama starring Orson Welles and Loretta Young. Directed by Welles from a screenplay written by Victor Travis. Sam Spiegel was the film’s producer. It’s believed that this is the first film released after World War II that showed footage of concentration camps. The Stranger was the only film made by Welles to show a profit upon its initial release.

Plot

It’s 1946 and Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Charles Rankin/Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi fugitive, in Harper, Connecticut. Kindler has effectively erased his identity prior to his escape to the United States where he has secured a job as a professor and taken a new wife (Loretta Young).

Wilson releases Kindler’s former lieutenant Meinike (Konstantin Shayne) and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where Meinke is strangled to death before he can identify Kindler to Wilson.

Wilson must now try to identify his suspect through Mrs. Mary Rankin who is the only person to have seen Rakin and Meinke meet. Rankin/Kindler, suspecting that Wilson is closing in on his identity, hopes to count on his wife’s faithfulness to keep him free, but her “subconscious” desire for truth undermines Rakin’s efforts.

Cast

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