The Stranger (1946)

The Stranger is a noir film from 1946, directed by Orson Welles with starring Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson . The film is currently in the public domain . The Stranger is often regarded as the most "traditional" (Hollywood-style) film by Orson Welles. ==[Story  edit ] == Welles plays a professor named Charles Rankin, in an idyllic town near Connecticut lives with his lovely wife Mary (played by Loretta Young ). One afternoon arrives extremely nervous German gentleman called Meineke ( Konstantin Shayne ) in the city. Professor Rankin seems troubled by Meinekes presence. He invites visitors for a walk in the woods, and so they get further and further away from the center of town. Gradually we learn that that kind Professor Rankin in fact, the notorious Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. Meineke seems to share Kindlers Nazi past and has come to the city to beg his former superior Kindler to surrender. The professor responds by murder his old friend. Commissioner Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), which is investigating war crimes in Kindler comes to visit, and poses as antique dealer ...