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The Stranger is a american film of genre Drama directed by Orson Welles released in USA on 1 august 1946 with Loretta Young
The Stranger (1946)
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Add to a movie listThe Stranger is a 1946 American film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles. It was Welles' third completed feature film as director. A drama about a war crimes investigator who tracks a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a New England town, it is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust. The original story by Victor Trivas was nominated for an Academy Award. The film entered the public domain when its copyright was not renewed.
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In 1946, Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) of the United Nations War Crimes Commission is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him, with no clue left to his identity except "a hobby that almost amounts to a mania—clocks."Actors
Loretta Young
(Mary Longstreet)
Edward G. Robinson
(Federal Agent Wilson)
Orson Welles
(Prof. Charles Rankin)
Philip Merivale
(Judge Adam Longstreet)
Richard Long
(Noah Longstreet)
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