The Stranger starring: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Richard Long, Martha Wentworth, Philip Merivale, Konstantin Shayne, Byron Keith, Billy House. (1st film). King Lear starring: Orson Welles, Wesley Addy, Alan Badel, Lloyd Bachner, Scott Forbes, Michael MacLiammoir, Arnold Moss, Natasha Parry, Margaret Phillips, Beatrice Straight, and Frederick Worlock; Directed by Andrew McCullough. (2nd film).
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Video for American Cinema Class. pt. [1]. The Stranger. -- The Stranger: A thriller starring Orson Welles as an escaped Nazi war criminal who assumes a new identity in a small Connecticut town following World War II. (1946, 95 min., b&w) pt. [2]. King Lear. -- King Lear: Welles plays up the soft side of Shakespeare's King Lear in this made-for-TV movie about an aging monarch blinded by anger and jealousy, ultimately betrayed by his daughters who swiftly seize his power. (1953, 73 min., b&w)
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