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...Stranger. Orson Welles directs and stars in a cunning conspiracy to scare the daylights out of folks (TIME, June...
...Stranger. Orson Welles directs and stars in a cunning conspiracy to scare the daylights out of folks (TIME, June...
...Stranger (International-RKO Radio) is a cunning conspiracy to scare the daylights out of you. Adroitly directed by Orson Welles, who also plays the star, it is a grade A gooseflesh-raiser...
Advance advertising for The Stranger warns audiences not to give away the secret. These ill-advised ads imply that the picture is merely a run-of-the-morgue whodunit. It is a notch above that. There is only a brief question of Orson's black villainy. The movie succeeds because it manages to keep you squirming over a couple of far more chilling questions. Does Loretta know too much for the safety of her own pretty neck? Will G-man Edward G. Robinson get the goods on Orson before all hell breaks loose...
...Stranger's details-a tight script, murky lighting, feverish camera angles, brooding background music-are deftly synchronized to the prevailing mood of uneasiness. All of the acting is well above par. There is hardly a trace of Little Caesar in Edward G. Robinson's implacable G-man. Loretta Young is just right as the harassed, threatened bride. Oldtime Vaudevillian Billy House earns some much-needed laughs as the village druggist. And Actor Welles, even though Director Welles has used too much film on shots of the petulant Welles scowl, is a convincing menace who richly deserves hissing...