25 Aug The Stranger
The Stranger, WWII Movie starring Edward G. Robinson and Orson Welles
(1946) An American delegate to the Allied War Crimes Commission (played by Edward G. Robinson) tracks down a dangerous Nazi war criminal, he who invented the mass murder machine no less, to a small town in Connecticutt.
Orson Welles directed and starred in The Stranger. The camera work, the light and shadows, were definitely his.
I read in the Wikipedia that it is believed to be the first film released after World War II that showed footage of concentration camps (though not much of it.)
Welles, of course, plays the Nazi. He is now a professor in the local prep school. He is also obsessed by clocks. What I didn’t get was how lovely sweet Loretta Young could have fallen in love with and married such a dark menacing character.
The best scene in the movie is the last one, up high at the face of the town square clock.
The Stranger (MGM Film Noir) at amazon.com
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