The Stranger 1946 BrRip Mp4 Lee1001

The Stranger 1946 BrRip Mp4 Lee1001

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Although best remembered as the only box-office hit of his career — meaning it was popular with mainstream audiences — Orson Welles' 'The Stranger' is arguably his least talked about film, and it's rarely considered one of his finest efforts. There is no one reason for this, and unlike 'The Immortal Story' or 'Chimes at Midnight,' the film is readily available on home video in the U.S. After two theatrical failures, the crime thriller was made primarily to assure Hollywood of Welles' abilities as a reliable filmmaker. And the venture paid off once it became a financial success. In spite of all this, 'The Stranger' remains a uniquely Orson Welles production, showing many of his characteristics and artistic style.

The 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.

Orson, an out & out homicidal heel, is a particularly nasty Nazi. He is dodging the Allied War Crimes Commission by hiding out in a quiet little New England town. In public, he looks, talks and behaves like a pallid prep-school professor. But his extracurricular time is fairly well filled between 1) murdering anybody who knows enough to give him away, 2) honeymooning...

After the epic scale and heavy stylisation of Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Stranger feels like something of a come down for Orson Welles. It was the poor box office showing of these earlier films that compelled Welles to make a more conventional film, one that would achieve a healthy return, thereby redeeming himself in the eyes of his profit-hungry producers in Hollywood. The Stranger may not be Welles' most inspired or technically laudable film, but it is a respectable film noir thriller which achieved what it was intended to do, to attract and entertain a large mainstream cinema audience.

Welles claimed that he disliked making The Stranger and admitted that there was little in the project to enthuse him. This is surprising given that the film bears many of his stylistic motifs, notably the expressionistic use of shadows and oblique camera angles. Uncharacteristically for Welles, the narrative is doggedly linear, avoiding flashbacks, a key Wellesian device, but this adds to the film's realism, making this one of the director's most naturalistic works.

One of the reasons why Welles found making this film so difficult was having to work opposite Edward G. Robinson, who was foisted on him by International Pictures producer Sam Spiegel. Welles had originally intended that the part of the war crimes investigator would go to Agnes Moorehead, who had featured in his earlier film The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Spiegel was adamant that Moorehead was not a sufficient box office draw to make the film a success and so hired the far more bankable Robinson. Although Robinson gives a great performance, he had a poor working relationship with his co-star/director and the atmosphere on the set was often poisoned with acrimony.

The main strength of The Stranger is Welles' utterly chilling portrayal of a Nazi fugitive. This is noteworthy because the actor tacitly avoids the stereotypical image of Nazi officials that was prevalent in cinema at the time, that of the single-minded power-crazed mad man. Instead, Welles portrays war criminal Franz Kindler in a way that is far more convincing and sinister - as a quietly calculating man who has committed himself wholesale to Nazi ideology and who has his own sincerely held views of morality and justice. It is a role that prefigures Welles' most famous, that of the unscrupulous Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949).
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