The Stranger (1946 film)
1946 film by Orson Welles / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young and Orson Welles. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir,[4] it centers on a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust.
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Directed by | Orson Welles |
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Story by | Victor Trivas |
Produced by | S. P. Eagle |
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Cinematography | Russell Metty |
Edited by | Ernest J. Nims |
Music by | Bronisław Kaper |
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1.034 million[2] |
Box office | $3.22 million[2] 931,868 admissions (France)[3] |
The film was nominated for the Golden Lion (then-called the ‘Grand International Prize’) at the 8th Venice International Film Festival. Screenwriter Victor Trivas received an Oscar nomination for Best Story. The film entered the public domain when its copyright was not renewed.