Excellent post-war thriller, via Orson Welles.
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07/11/08
The Stranger (1946)
95 %
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Reviews Counted: 19
Fresh: 18
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: THE STRANGER: Orson Welles directed and starred in THE STRANGER, a tense black-and-white thriller that Welles made for maverick producer Sam Spiegel. Welles portrays Charles Rankin, a respected academic at a prominent Connecticut... [More]
Starring: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Director: Orson Welles
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Reviews for The Stranger
1 - 19 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Orson Welles's 1946 film reproduces his personal themes of self-scrutiny and self-destruction only in outline, though it is an inventive, highly enjoyable thriller.
04/06/07
The Stranger is socko melodrama, spinning an intriguing web of thrills and chills.
04/06/07
Top Critic One of Welles' most conventional films: His fans don't like it because it's too plot-driven and linear but that was his goal, wishing to prove that he could make a mainstream film after the brilliant but failures, Citizen Kane and Magnificent Ambersons.
02/09/07
The most restrained and conventional of Welles's films, but still a thrilling entertainment.
08/29/06
Top Critic
The whole film, produced by S. P. Eagle, comes off a bloodless, manufactured show.
03/25/06
Top Critic Welles' third film, often described as his worst, but still a hugely enjoyable thriller.
02/09/06
Largely unsung, this Orson Welles movie is one of his most straightforward, yet still one of his greats -- and reportedly his only film to turn a profit on its original theatrical release.
01/27/04
It's only 1946, and Welles is already typecast as the man with a past and not a glorious future.
09/18/03
Top Critic
a solid piece of postwar genre work about a Nazi hiding in bucolic small-town America
12/16/01
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