The stranger [blu-ray] / International Pictures, Inc. presents ; screen play by Anthony Veiller ; adaptation by Victor Trivas and Decla Dunning ; produced by S.P. Eagle ; direction, Orson Welles.
Format:
[blu-ray] /
Edition:
Remastered edition.
Publisher:
Publisher not identified,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1946. "Preserved by the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation"--Opening screen. Special features: Mastered in HD from archival 35mm elements preserved by the Library of Congress; Audio commentary by film historian Bret Wood; Original theatrical trailer; Image gallery; "Death Mills" (1945, 21 min.), an informational film on the Nazi death camps (produced by Billy Wilder), footage of which appears in "The Stranger"; Orson Welles's Wartime Radio broadcasts. Four complete programs exemplify Welle's blending of propaganda and entertainment: "Alameda" (Nazi Eyes on Canada, 1942), "War Workers" (Ceiling Unlimited, 1942), "Brazil" (Hello Americans, 1942), and "Bikini Atomic Test" (Orson Welles Commentaries, 1946). Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne, Byron Keith, Billy House, Martha Wentworth.
Summary:
The Academy Award-nominated thriller follows Franz Kindler, a Nazi fugitive hiding out as a professor in a small Connecticut town. When his new wife begins to suspect his past, a detective sets out to uncover his identity.
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