The Stranger (Remastered Edition) (Blu-ray)
The most deceitful man a woman ever loved!
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Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Released: October 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Kino Classics
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Note: Audio Commentary by film historian Bret Wood
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- "Death Mills" (1945, 21 min.), an informational film on the Nazi death camps (Produced by Billy Wilder), footage of which appears in The Stranger
- Orson Welle's Wartime Radio Broadcasts
- Four complete programs exemplify Welle's blending of propaganda and entertainment: "Alameda" (Nazi Eyes on Canada, 1942), "War Workers" (Ceiling Unlimited, 1942), "Brazil" (Hello Americans, 1942), and "Bikini Atomic Test" (Orson Welles Commentaries, 1946)
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- DTS HD Master Audio - English
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson & Loretta Young | |
| Performer: | Billy House, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Byron Keith, Martha Wentworth, Konstantin Shayne & Isabel O'Madigan | |
| Directed by | Orson Welles | |
| Edited by | Ernest Nims | |
| Screenplay by | Anthony Veiller, John Huston & Orson Welles | |
| Composition by | Bronislau Kaper | |
| Art Direction by | Perry Ferguson | |
| Story by | Victor Trivas, John Huston & Decla Dunning | |
| Produced by | S.P. Eagle & Sam Spiegel | |
| Director of Photography: | Russell Metty |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Welles' third film, often described as his worst, but still a hugely enjoyable thriller.
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Time Out
The Stranger is socko melodrama, spinning an intriguing web of thrills and chills.
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Variety
Rating: 7/10 --
Welles might not have had control in the editing room, but he indulged his penchant for long takes with the able assistance of ace cinematographer Russell Metty,
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Movie Metropolis
Adroitly directed by Orson Welles, who also plays the star, it is a grade A gooseflesh-raiser.
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TIME Magazine
Orson Welles's 1946 film reproduces his personal themes of self-scrutiny and self-destruction only in outline, though it is an inventive, highly enjoyable thriller.
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Chicago Reader
They are backed by a smooth production, of brains and taste, and by a script that skillfully conceals the gaping holes in its mesh of intrigue.
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Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Rating: 69/100 --
Welles is so technically proficient that even his second-tier works are well worth seeking out, and The Stranger belongs to this category.
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Film and Felt
Product Description:
THE STRANGER: Orson Welles directed and starred in THE STRANGER, a tense black-and-white thriller that Welles made for maverick producer Sam Spiegel. Welles portrays Charles Rankin, a respected academic at a prominent Connecticut college. He seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful new wife, Mary (Loretta Young); and a charming home in a small town that holds him in high esteem. Enter Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a detective on the hunt for Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. The appearance of Mr. Wilson threatens to reveal that underneath this idyllic veneer is a secret that could tear everything apart.
Although many of Welles's most interesting scenes wound up on the cutting-room floor when Spiegel reedited the film, THE STRANGER is still multilayered, complex, and fascinating. The scenes between Welles and Robinson are intellectually gripping, leading up to the stylized, shocking conclusion. As with so many of Welles's films, he was unhappy with the final result, but the viewer won't be. It would be most interesting to see the film as Welles intended it to be, but in the meantime, this version of THE STRANGER is a marvel.
Although many of Welles's most interesting scenes wound up on the cutting-room floor when Spiegel reedited the film, THE STRANGER is still multilayered, complex, and fascinating. The scenes between Welles and Robinson are intellectually gripping, leading up to the stylized, shocking conclusion. As with so many of Welles's films, he was unhappy with the final result, but the viewer won't be. It would be most interesting to see the film as Welles intended it to be, but in the meantime, this version of THE STRANGER is a marvel.
Plot Synopsis:
A Nazi war criminal is hounded across America by a federal agent after he assumes a false identity.
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Production Notes:
- Theatrical Release: July, 1946
- An uncredited John Huston had a large hand in the development of the script.
- The producers, led by Sam Spiegel, cut many of Welles's favorite, more complex scenes. Welles was never happy with the final cut.
- THE STRANGER was the first Hollywood film to use real footage from World War II concentration camps.
- Welles originally wanted Agnes Moorehead to play the character eventually played by Edward G. Robinson.
- THE STRANGER was the only Welles-directed film to show a profit upon its initial theatrical release.
- THE STRANGER is perhaps the most mainstream of Welles's films; he shot it within the studio system, shooting it by the book.
- Konstantin Shayne (Meinike) was Akim Tamiroff's brother-in-law; Tamiroff starred in Welles's MR. ARKADIN.
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