The Stranger (MGM Film Noir)

The Stranger (MGM Film Noir)

The Stranger (MGM Film Noir)
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Actor: Orson Welles
Brand: 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: First-rate copy of "The Stranger"
Summary: 5 Stars

At last, you can throw away those old VHS tapes and/or substandard DVDs of "The Stranger". A gorgeous copy of this film.

I have watched a couple of others in this series as well, and they are equally beautiful. No extras to speak of, just first-rate presentations of the films at a great price. Highly recommended.

Summary of The Stranger (MGM Film Noir)

Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 07/10/2007 Run time: 95 minutes Rating: Nr
The 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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