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The Stranger

film by Welles [1946]

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discussed in biography

In Orson Welles: Films of the later 1940s: The Stranger, The Lady from Shanghai, and Macbeth
The Stranger (1946) was a thriller about a Nazi, Franz Kindler (Welles), who is hiding out as a schoolteacher in a small New England town. His impending nuptials with a fellow teacher (Loretta Young) are interrupted when a war-crimes investigator (Edward G. Robinson) tracks him…
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produced by Spiegel

In Sam Spiegel
…Manhattan (1942) and Orson Welles’s The Stranger (1946).
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role of Young

In Loretta Young
…of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), The Stranger (1946), and The Bishop’s Wife (1947).
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