The Stranger (MGM Film Noir)
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Actor: Orson WellesBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Stranger (MGM Film Noir)
Movie Review: Big Brother in the Movies.
Summary: 4 Stars
The Trial, which starred Anthony Perkins, was directed by Orson Welles, who was the character's advocate. He also wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Franz Kafka. He declared early on that this was his best movie and used the last name Cane, because of his success with 'Citizen Cane,' about Randolph Hearst.
In this movie, The Trial, Josef was arrested at his own apartment and had to stand trial before his totalitarian neighbors. Doors play a big part in this strange movie in an abandoned Paris railway station. The outside facade is beautiful, likes ours in America, but it being French makes it especially so. The empty part of the inside is dark and scary. Josef doesn't know why he has been singled out for prosecution.
Anthony Perkins was just a kid, long before 'Psycho' and this is a most unusual psychological study of society, or a strange part of same. It is very talky. Ending is like 'Suddenly Last Summer.'
Summary of The Stranger (MGM Film Noir)
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 07/10/2007 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: NrThe legendary story that hovers over Orson Welles's The Stranger is that he wanted Agnes Moorehead to star as the dogged Nazi hunter who trails a war criminal to a sleepy New England town. The part went to E.G. Robinson, who is marvelous, but it points out how many compromises Welles made on the film in an attempt to show Hollywood he could make a film on time, on budget, and on their own terms. He accomplished all three, turning out a stylish if unambitious film noir thriller, his only Hollywood film to turn a profit on its original release. Welles stars as unreformed fascist Franz Kindler, hiding as a schoolteacher in a New England prep school for boys and newly married to the headmaster's lovely if naive daughter (Loretta Young). Welles the director is in fine form for the opening sequences, casting a moody tension as agents shadow a twitchy low-level Nazi official skulking through South American ports and building up to dramatic crescendo as Kindler murders this little man, the lovely woods becoming a maelstrom of swirling leaves that expose the body he furiously tries to bury. The rest of film is a well-designed but conventional cat-and-mouse game featuring an eye-rolling performance by Welles and a thrilling conclusion played out in the dark clock tower that looms over the little village. --Sean Axmaker
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