The Stranger

(1946)

95 minutes.

Film / Drama / Suspense / Film Noir

Directed by Orson Welles

Cast:

Orson Welles as Franz Kindler alias Professor Charles Rankin
Edward G. Robinson as Mr. Wilson
Loretta Young as Mary Longstreet Rankin
Philip Merivale as Judge Adam Longstreet 
Richard Long as Noah Longstreet 
Konstantin Shayne as Konrad Meinike
Byron Keith as Dr. Jeffrey Lawrence
Billy House as Mr. Potter
Martha Wentworth as Sara

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, a mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, but Meinike is killed before he can identify Kindler. Now Wilson's only clue is Kindler's fascination with antique clocks; but though Kindler seems secure in his new identity, he feels his past closing in.