The Stranger (1946 film)

The Stranger is a 1946 American film noir starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, and Orson Welles. It was Welless third completed feature film as director. A drama about a war crimes investigator who tracks a highranking 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.

Wilson releases Kindlers former associate Meinike Konstantin Shayne, hoping the man will lead him to Kindler. Wilson follows Meinike to the United States, to the town of Harper, Connecticut, but loses him before he meets with Kindler. Kindler has assumed a new identity and is known locally as Charles Rankin, and has become a prep school teacher. He has married Mary Longstreet Loretta Young, daughter of Supreme Court Justice Adam Longstreet Philip Merivale, and is involved in repairing the towns 300yearold Habrechtstyle clock mechanism with religious automata that crowns the belfry of a church in the town square.When KindlerRankin and Meinike do meet, Meinike, who is repentant, begs Kindler to confess his crimes. Instead, Kindler strangles Meinike, who might expose him. ........

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