The Stranger
Director: Orson Welles
Year Released: 1946
Rating: 2.0
Former Nazi-turned-Professor (Orson Welles) hides in a town in Connecticut with a blushing bride (Loretta Young), only to be tracked down by the government (embodied by a no-nonsense Edward G. Robinson). Dips into its own share of Fascinating Fascism part of the time (Holocaust footage is shown, too) and the last third is pure hysteria, by both Welles - who gets impaled on a sword and produces a good deal of sweat - and Young. Robinson, as expected, shows he's skilled enough to play characters on both sides of the law - he's a frightening G-man, let me tell you - and Billy House provides plot exposition and comic relief as a quirky shopkeeper/checkers hustler.
