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Slant’s 100 Best Film Noirs of All Time (100 movies items)"Blossoming cinephiles who get around to The Stranger later in life may be startled by the film they actually see after potentially hearing of its mediocrity as a reflection of director Orson Welles’s desire to achieve a functional worker-for-hire anonymity following the brilliant but unprofitable one-two punch of Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. No, The Stranger isn’t exhilarating in the same fashion as those earlier films, or the later Falstaff or Touch of Evil; its technical vir"
Actors Who Played Nazi in Movies (48 movies items)"Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson Orson Welles as Professor Charles Rankin"
BradWesley123's Movie Screenshots: Vol. 20 (50 movies items)" Director: Orson Welles Cinematographer: Russell Metty Other Images "
BradWesley123's Movie Journal- January 2018 (33 movies items)" Amazon Prime- 1hr. 34min. First Viewing There's a great idea behind The Stranger, one that could easily be made into a thrilling mystery/thriller, but this film just isn't adept enough to handle it. The cast is solid, and Welles's innovative camera work can be seen here, albeit slightly (admittedly, the cut of this film that I saw had not be cleaned or remastered at all, so it looked pretty damn rough), but the story just languishes; nothing happens for long periods of time and, when it does, t"
Watched in 2018
Movies the giraffe watched in 2017: September (28 movies items)"First viewing - Sept. 23rd After watching two new movies earlier in the day, and thinking about how most of the films I've seen lately have been modern, I decided to watch something from the past. This was an interesting movie that's well put together and buoyed by the performances of Robinson & Welles. We spend the entire film with most of the pieces given to us up front and waiting to see how what we know will affect the characters involved. I do think both Welles & Robinson worked on far bet"
Project #1 -1001 Movies I Must see Before I die- (1167 movies items)" Rating iMDB: My Rating: Director: Actors: Genre: The Plot:"
The Good & The Bad - Movies Watched In 2017 (472 movies items)"This is a taut thriller about a war crimes detective who heads to a small town to hunt down a Nazi criminal who has escaped justice. Orson Welles plays the Nazi who has hidden himself as a college professor and married a local woman. Edward G Robinson is the dogged detective who will not give up on catching his Nazi. Welles provides menace as the net is slowly closed in on him and even his naive wife when told that her husband might be a war criminal refuses to believe it. It all builds up to a "
My Movie Highlights of the 1940s (+Watchlists)
