2012-08-11

Public domain film noir: The Stranger (1946)

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Director: Orson Welles
Writer: Anthony Veiller, Victor Trivas, Decla Dunning, John Huston (uncredited), Orson Welles (uncredited)
Cinematographer: Russell Metty

Plot: In 1946, Mr. Wilson of the United Nations War Crimes Commission is hunting for Nazi fugitive, a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him. He has assumed a new identity and has become a prep school teacher in a small town in the United States. Eventually his secrets unravel and, pursued, he flees into a church belfry, then falls to his death.

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