Produced by Sam Spiegel and Directed by Orson Welles, The Stranger is set in post-World War II New England. Franz Kindler (Orson Welles) is a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. Kindler marries Mary Longstreet (Loretta Young), the daughter of a Supreme Court justice, to complete his disguise.
Kindler is being persued by Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission, and Kindler will do anything to prevent getting caught.
Trivia: he Stranger was the only film made by Welles to have been a bona fide box office success on the first release (Citizen Kane had made back its budget and marketing, but not enough to make a profit).
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