The Stranger [Blu-ray]

Overview

The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary (Loretta Young). One afternoon, an extremely nervous German gentleman named Meineke (Konstantin Shayne) arrives in town. Professor Rankin seems disturbed--but not unduly so--by Meineke's presence. He invites the stranger for a walk in the woods, and as they journey farther and farther away from the center of town, we learn that kindly professor Rankin is actually notorious Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. Conscience-stricken by his own genocidal wartime activities, Meineke has come to town to beg his ex-superior Kindler to give himself up. The professor responds by brutally murdering his old associate. If Kindler believes himself safe--and he has every reason to do so, since no one in town, especially Mary, has any inkling of his previous life--he will change his mind in a hurry when mild-mannered war crimes commissioner Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) pays a visit, posing as an antiques dealer.

Product Details

Release Date:	08/29/2017
UPC:	0887090136815
Original Release:	1946
Rating:	NR
Source:	Olive
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:35:00
Sales rank:	14,016

Special Features

Trailer; Audio commentary with Nora Fiore; "The Stranger: Murderers Among Us" - essay by Dr. Jennifer Lynde Barker

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Orson Welles	Charles Rankin
Edward G. Robinson	Wilson
Loretta Young	Mary Longstreet,Actor
Philip Merivale	Rechter Longstreet
Richard Long	Noah Longstreet
Byron Keith	Dr. Jeff Lawrence
Billy House	Potter
Konstantin Shayne	Konrad Meinike
Martha Wentworth	Sara
Isabel O'Madigan	Mrs. Lawrence
Pietro Sasso	Mr. Peabody
David Bond	Student
John Brown	Passport Photographer
Neal Dodd	Minister
Nancy Evans	Undetermined Role
Fred Godoy	Undetermined Role
Joseph Granby	Undetermined Role
Ethan Laidlaw	Todd, Customer in Potter's Store
Ruth Lee	Undetermined Role
Lillian Molieri	Undetermined Role
Gabriel Peralta	Undetermined Role
Gerald Pierce	Kid Throwing Newspaper Shreds
Robert Raison	Undetermined Role
Rebel Randall	Undetermined Role
Johnny Sands	Jogging Student in Woods
Erskine Sanford	Party Guest
Pietro Sosso	Mr. Peabody
Brother Theodore	Fairbright
Josephine Victor	Undetermined Role
Adolph Faylauer	cz¿onek Komisji ds. Zbrodni Wojennych
Bronislau Kaper	Composer

Technical Credits

Orson Welles

Anthony Veiller

John Huston

Victor Trivas

Decla Dunning

Orson Welles	Director,Screenwriter
Sam Spiegel	Producer
Anthony Veiller	Screenwriter
John Huston	Producer,Screenwriter
Victor Trivas	Screenwriter
Decla Dunning	Screenwriter
Arthur Johns	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
Corson Jowett	Sound Effects
Corson Jowett	Sound/Sound Designer