The Stranger (1946) ORSON WELLES

[Music] leave the cell door open that's all there is to it let him escape in my view it's all very irregular it might entail the most embarrassing repercussions exactly certainly it's the responsibility of the first magnitude i'm sorry mr wilson but you must be last what good are words i'm sick of words hang the repercussions and the responsibility if i fail i'm responsible leave the cell door open let him escape let him it's our only chance you can threaten me with the bottom pits of hell and still i insist this obscenity must be destroyed do you hear me destroyed all passengers ready to disembark i'm traveling for my health i am traveling for my health tengan listos get your passports ready i'm traveling for my health [Music] i'm joining my husband [Music] your business in in this i'm traveling for my health how i am traveling for my health you are a native of what country next please [Music] [Music] hello yes you haven't lost him you sure you know where he's going my wife has followed him he's gone to the photographers probably to get a new passport and new i wish you know the instructions of france kindler [Music] there is no france kindle france kindler is dead and cremated it's the [Music] it is forbidden i command you in the name of that [Music] authority you know the name he's using connecticut in the united states the town of harper so [Music] harper [Music] me yes thank you quite a story you have here mr uh that's me we shot about everything here i said hey there's two rats fighting in this room he said what do you want for a book and a quarter a bull fight about seven o'clock in the morning he said is there a man in your room he said no so he pushed one in she was a cute little chambermaid yeah [Music] uh what's the best hotel in town best place to stay don't miss peabody's it's just down road here yes thank you [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] i may come in yes of course that's mr charles ryan can live here yes he does but he isn't here right now you expected in a few minutes how soon well a few minutes few minutes [Music] i may i may wait here [Music] well yes if you like [Music] do you like sedan thank you you're a friend of mr rankins yes a friend i'm mary longstreet how do you do [Music] mr rankin ought to be here now sometimes he stays after his last class but he'll be coming straight here today i'm sure because this is our wedding day you're getting married yes at six o'clock i know it's most unconventional my being here today but i want to get these curtains up [Music] when he comes which way does he come my uh from uh webster hall it's the big dome building right over there you see i shall meet you well who shall i say that [Music] france it's my friends fine again we mustn't be seen talking together go back to the church into the woods into the woods you understand me follow the path i'll meet you there hello professor rankin hello man what are you up to paper chase oh pay for chase i go ahead and lay the trail you ought to have jerry's job mr rankin take a little off that waistline no you ought to go with us mr rankin or woods well i i'd like to i'm afraid i have a couple of things to attend to we'll join us later we'll be out till dark all right oh we'll catch up with you yes i thought i had been hanged the others but not i a dead man could not stand face to face with you friends you know what's you're back in your uniform look very much the same france i am a different man than before i too i too am different conrad i you know how i gathered and destroyed every single item in germany in poland that might have served as a clue to my identity well guess what i'll be doing at six o'clock tonight standing before a minister of the gospel with a woman's hand in mind the daughter of a justice of the united states supreme court a famous liberal the girl's even good to look at yes the camouflage is perfect good thing to look for the notorious franz kindler in the sacred precincts of the harper school surrounded by the sons of america's first families and i'll stay hidden till the day when we strike again france there will be another war of course what is an abomination saved lord it is to tell you this define me here he set me free that i set you free who set you free they're all highest you don't mean i'm in god [Laughter] i'm a new man since i found you conrad religious friends friends all doors were open to me all doors it was one of god's miracles [Music] they freed you so you'd lead them to me have you been followed we followed here yes who followed you the evil one he looked like any other man he was he was dressed like any other man he even smoked a pipe but i recognized him through his disguise and i killed him stretching from unhide down that's will be done you killed him the man with a pipe the man who followed you no one else followed you you must be brought to salvation france confess your sins as i have proclaim your guilt only thus you can attain salvation you really think so conrad it will take strength such strength as can come only from god kneel by me friends and together we will pray to him to give you strength i have sinned against heaven and before thee [Music] i am not worthy to be called thy son say these words after me i despair on my sins i despair of my sins oh god of all goodness how god ever have offended me of our goodness don't let him get away so [Music] hey this way fellas [Music] dearly beloved we are gathered together here in the sight of god and in the face of this company to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony and forsaking all others keep the only unto her so long as ye both shall live i will mary will thou have this man for thy wedded husband to live together after god's ordinance in the holiest state of matrimony but thou love him comfort him honor and keep him in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep the only unto him so long as he both shall live well afternoon wedding yep judge long street starter he's supreme court justice you know bottle of aspirin please right back there third shelf down from the top you'll see the big ones on the left the economy size you have to get it yourself mister right back there all your needs are on our shelves just look around and help yourselves right in there right this one that's that's it that's it living down to miss peabody's just a few days only uh some coffee too please or should i get it myself cafeteria style around here that's right self-service the usual thing yes that's three dollars even mr todd oh thank you who's miss long street marrying one of the teachers down at school a stranger in town i issued the license oh yep i'm town clerk hey checkers all right call clerk huh yeah well that must be quite a responsibility oh town clerk runs the town you might say yeah we usually make it for uh 15 20. we often play as high as 25 cents the game well it's kind of stiff for me but i'll take a flyer make a million lose a minute that's the way it goes i move hmm all right well you must uh know just about everybody in town here it's not just about know everybody here on visions oh no bye oh antique dealer they all come to harker judge long street's got the best collection these parts won't do you no good though no i don't suppose yourself happen to know there are any other out of town buyers here uh let me i couldn't think of it there's feather come in this morning yeah came on the same bus with you all right left the suitcase here never did come back for it he might have been one of them no no he was more of the missionary type wasn't in here but a minute just looked in the phone book tiny little fella he was a finnish unfortunate looking hurt your head mister uh uh no no nothing serious oh that's too bad it's a game you got to keep your mind on 25 cents please [Music] i won't pretend i'm not disappointed your father has anybody seen my brand new husband don't tell me he's deserted you already yes looks as if the bro listen red have you seen charles go find him for me go on go on go find child hurry up [Music] i've looked everywhere for him mary and i can't find him i wonder where he could be i'm getting worried are you darling what about you've changed [Music] don't you think you'd better after all you're supposed to be going on a honeymoon or something give me five [Music] minutes [Music] [Music] hello there hello was that you working up there on the clock no no i was just cleaning around it oh beautiful thing from what i can see out front beautiful yeah uh my name is wilson oh i'm long street no alongside i'm glad i know you mr wilson i uh couldn't judge any too well out front but i'd say it was uh late 16th century probably by hobrick of strasbourg uh the clock well i wouldn't know my brother-in-law is going to work on is he up there now no no he's on his honeymoon he plans to work on it when he gets back oh is he an ex-credit well yes but it's really more of a hobby with him really well it is with me too honeymoon yeah he and my sister um he's has to be back on friday because of the examination he's one of the teachers at the school his name is rankin [Music] it's nice to be able to show it to someone who knows what revere silva's all about but personally my specialty is pewter oh yes sir pewter now uh the uh revere workmanship although uh sometimes heavy in design almost invariably shows the sign of a master craftsman it's beautiful noah hello hello honey oh man india mr wilson my daughter mary oh how are you doing my son is on charles rankin how do you do how do you do i hope you don't mind my intruding on your homecoming good leaving mary jeff how are you fine you're looking good welcome home miss mary dear sarah oh sarah if you don't sit down it'll get cold come on james will you come sit over here on my right jeff your usual place darling you're right there you ought to see charles on skis he's absolutely wonderful yes darling you are and i'm pretty good too aren't you very well for a beginner do you remember to keep your knees together in your apparatus yes freshy i did mr wilson here is compiling a catalogue of paul revere silva how nice mr wilson is also an authority on clocks oh really that's charles harvey too yes so your brother tells me i understand you're going to fix the one in the church tower or i may try well it's quite an undertaking not sure the kind of a wife i am i hope he fails i like her for just the way it is even to the clock that doesn't run you been at harper long mr wilson um since uh friday week ago oh you lost today i passed you up on friday by the way how's the head oh very much improved thanks to you doctor you were hurt on thursday remember the day of the wedding yes that's right er wednesday i left bengal you were hurt mr wilson oh nothing serious well serious enough to raise a bump on his head the size of a billiard ball the usual door lifting your back sister that dog of yours has been inconsolable well all right red wait a minute here you are it's for missing me how's that yeah it's a good boy how was your meeting adam oh irritating the foreign policy association i read that fellow's report standish yes i think he's full of prunes well that's the way we used to talk in the 1930s noah standish the uh london times man of berlin yes of course he was quoting rumors mostly men drilling by night or underground meeting places pagan rituals do you believe in paul well anything's possible i'm sorry sir but i think it's ridiculous there may be some fanatics but no german in his right mind can still have a taste for war do you know germany mr rankin i'm sorry i i have a way of making enemies when i'm on that well we shall consider it the objective opinion of an objective historian historian a psychiatrist could explain it better the german sees himself as the innocent victim of world envy and hatred conspired against set upon by inferior people's inferior nations he cannot admit to error much less to wrongdoing not the german we chose to ignore ethiopian spain but we learned from our casualty list the price of looking the other way men of truth everywhere have come to know for whom the bell told but not the german he still follows his warrior guards marching to wagnerian strains his eyes still fixed upon the fiery sword of siegfried and in those subterranean meeting places that you don't believe in the germans dreamworld comes alive and he takes his place in shining armor beneath the banners of the teutonic knights mankind is waiting for the messiah but for the german the messiah is not the prince of peace and he's another barbarossa another hitler well then you uh you have no faith in the reforms that are being affected in germany i don't know mr wilson i can't believe that people can be reformed except from within the basic principles of equality and freedom never have never will take root in germany the world of freedom has been voiced in every other tongue all men are created equal liberty gallatin fraternity in german there's marx proletarians unites who have nothing to lose but your chains but max wasn't a german max it's a jew but my dear charles if we concede your argument there is no solution can well so once again i differ well what is it then annihilation i don't know the last babe in arms oh charles i can't imagine you're advocating a carthaginian piece well as a story and i must remind you that the world hasn't had much trouble from carthage in the past two thousand years oh that speaks our pedagogue uh speaking of teachers mr wilson yes yeah the faculty is coming for tea next tuesday if you have nothing better to do would you like to join us uh i'd like to but uh my work here is finished i'm leaving harper tomorrow extraordinary isn't it clark's being mr wilson's hobby too yes isn't it all right how do you like your new house he loves it come here right i think i'll take you for a walk this way oh danny you don't have to take him out just let him out he won't run off all right i need to walk i'm restless come on that's good are you coming along i'll be in washington tomorrow afternoon you were right about rankin he's above suspicion [Music] so [Music] here red [Music] red [Music] [Music] uh give me long distance uh i won washington dc well who better nazi would deny that karl marx was a german because he was a jew i think i'll stick around for a while [Music] what is it there oh i'm sorry i was i was dreaming about that little man what little man oh you know dear i told you about him he came here the day we were married i like me a cigarette one never had a dream like that before it frightened me thanks [Music] you know that little man was walking all by himself across a deserted city square wherever he moved he threw a shadow but when he moved away charles the shadow stayed there behind him and spread out just like a carpet [Music] wish you could think who he might have been you're overtired have breath i did put this outward what was that well that sounded like red charles the world's the matter with i put him in the cellar darling no wonder he's howling he's never been locked up in his entire life deliver this he must be trained at night he will sleep in the cellar the daytime may be kept on a leash charles i don't believe in dogs being treated like prisoners please mary i know it's this [Music] so [Music] hi there red what you've gone to live with your mistress oh mary brought him home city howls all night oh uh fishing any good in these parts pretty fair would you like to come along uh afraid i've got the wrong clothes on but the fish probably won't mind thank you i'm just not lucky today that's all would you like a candy bar well i don't mind if i do thank you all your folks like fishing oh my dad's great he always brings in something but what about charles charles oh i have to call him mr rankin at school i get a little mixed up sometime uh he spends most of his time on the clock you know why don't you like him now what do you mean you don't like your brother-in-law it's not my business but uh i wish you tell me why well i i like him well enough right the only reason why i shouldn't don't tell me i'm butting in because i know i am but i can't help myself it's my business i hate bringing you into this noah but you're the only one i can turn to i need your help very badly well what is it your sister may be in great trouble i know that you're man enough for what i'm going to ask you to do for her the truth is i'm not really an antique dealer i'm uh sort of a detective well what do you want me to do mr wilson it would help me a lot if i knew every move charles rankin made on the day of his wedding right up to the ceremony well i should be able to unless charles realizes what i'm doing i'll keep him busy gee mr wilson you must be wrong mary wouldn't fall in love with that kind of a man i hope i am wrong noah but that's the way it is people can't help who they fall in love with [Music] he's here you and professor england aim to fix the clock figure to tell time rightly [Music] and will the angel circle around the belfry is that a man or woman angel mr wilson i don't know [Music] well wrecking don't make much a difference amongst angels well give up oh no no we'll play it out uh that's my privilege 25 cents here so uh by the way that uh mr rankin pick up his supper this evening okay nope hey he johnny gets to up there about now yes i know it's dark early these days [Music] [Music] our little man never did pick up a suitcase that he nope strange paint it though i've been tempted once twice to look see what's inside well seems to me that under the circumstances that you have a perfect right you do i wouldn't want to do it without a witness oh that's me it is that's all i wanted [Music] [Music] wrapped in a towel with ss cristobal written across it oh no pair of old shoes yeah yeah nothing but religious pamphlets yep that's all um uh mr potter and i have been poking our noses into somebody else's business that suitcase left it here and he never did call back that's been more than two weeks ago did you say what he was doing in harper no looked in the phone book didn't telephone kind of funny looking he was a scrawny little fella with big stary blue eyes had a queer walk like any second he might break into a run did he have a foreign accent why yes he did uh but not so much of an accent as a foreign way of talking do you happen to know who he could be mrs rankin why why no i was just trying to complete your mystery for you don't all foreign strangers have to have foreign accents mary have you seen red i know not since i took him home to you a couple of days ago he's been spending all his time out in the woods and he doesn't even come home for his meals but you told me he never ran away he never did no that's why noah's so anxious come on good night mr wilson good night [Music] noah were you able to find out anything monica did go to rankin's house and your sister did see him did mary say so she started to now your sister is a fine woman noah but she must find out the kind of man she's married to you don't know mary she she wouldn't listen to anything against him much less bully noah we must arrange it so that she finds out for herself you understand yes one thing's certain she knows nothing now nothing at all except that he didn't want her to admit having seen someone she did see i'd give something to know what explanation he's making right now i was a student in geneva there was a girl the night before i was to leave we went out on the lake together she told me unless i promised to marry her she'd never returned to suga [Music] oh i thought she was joking naturally but she wasn't before i could stop her she stood up in the boat hola i've dived in after her but it was too late she was gone only one person knew we were on the lake together her brother he knew i hadn't heard anybody he told me he'd be willing to call it an accident for compensation i gave him all i had and left switzerland as the years went by i allowed myself to believe that the dead past really was dead and then on our wedding day mary he appears again her brother a little man i gave him all the money i had in the world and he went [Music] this awful thing around by yourself you're a very wonderful person man i love you very much [Music] what why didn't he go back for his things [Music] well i suppose once he had money he could he could afford better darling i'm terribly nervous i think i'll work up in the clock alone tonight by myself it will calm me you understand don't you of course i understand [Music] shall i walk you home no dear there's no need for that [Music] it's pretty late that's all right and harper there's nothing to be afraid of i love you coral red he heard my whistle i'll bet he couldn't bark or anything he just crawled this far and died why do you think he died let's go and find out that's young long streaks dog red looks like he's dead to me they're taking him up to dr lawrence's office would you know anything about it what the world's not really uh checkers no i think that coke's a nickel thanks mr oh doctor how long could the dog have lived with that amount of poison in him oh not more than a minute or so i'd say well then red must have been poisoned within a few hundred yards of where you found him noah and the latter part of the distance he must have been moving slower and slower thank you very much doctor thanks jeff mr peabody would you please get that magazine wreck in and hurry up about it yes mr potter brilliant bring him right in there [Music] what does the law say about this kind of murder is the same as killing a man it ought to be it's just as bad four paws muddy no mud on hind dry leaves mixed with the mud bread must have been digging somewhere in the woods have you any idea what for mr wilson [Music] the body i think many keys the little man then [Music] you just caught me is there anything wrong wrong will you be including up like this yeah just going on a search watch after found a machine out what search for the body state please step ties half the town just reach up there fourth shell one misses the news open the clock tower what body are they searching for i bet this fella left these bags here strongly little duck unhappy looking i knew he'd jumped to a bad end that ought to be 15 cents mr president i'll just put it on your account oh sarah told me you're up here why are you packing are we going somewhere we aren't dearest i am what are you talking about as a rule men leave their wives because they don't love them but i must leave you because i do or you won't object once you know the kind of man you married but you are the man i have married and that's all that matters darling i meant it when i said for better for worse even to killing red you couldn't [Music] it was an accident no i meant to kill him murder can be a chain mary one link leading to another until it circles your neck red was digging at the grave of the man i killed yes you're a little man [Music] you killed him with these hands the same hands that have held you close to me how are you satisfied to let me go why why did you do it i'd have given him all i had but his dreams were grander he knew that your father was well to do he knew that justice longstreet would be glad to protect his daughter from any scandal by paying a few thousand dollars oh mary i should have gone away and lost myself in a world where he could never find me but i loved you and i was weak if one of us goes we'll both go you would have shared half my trouble if i'd had any charles what is there to connect you with that man nothing actually you're the only one that knows i knew him and you need have no fear if i'm the only one who can speak but mary in failing to speak you become part of the crime but i'm already a part of it because i'm a part of you but you shuddered the first touch of my hands as though it was the touch of death snares oh hold me close child hold me [Music] close mr peabody go back to town with the sheriff and open up the coroner's office yeah i knew that darn well it was the same color of course he's changed some uh being buried in the earth does it even mr wilson evening noah [Applause] what do we do about mary we can't leave her alone with him now that we know now she realizes now that whatever story he told her about meineke was false noah i think your sister should be ready to hear the truth charles will they make me look at the body i shouldn't think so because i couldn't do it i mean i don't think i could say i've never seen a dead person right when are you having to tea mary 28 all together i think yeah you didn't need nothing at dinner 28 we're just you sarah no i will manage all right i suppose i should should what i don't know i'm terrified of seeing anybody or being seen mary just get tight all of yourself feel the turn to go through this thing you've still before and exactly what you're gonna do and say it all times perfect naturalness at all now darling listen to me i am prepared to go to the police it's your father miss mary he wants to talk to you yes thank you sarah [Music] hello yes i think so just a minute and i'll see he wants me to come over he asked me to he said he wanted to see me alone there's nothing unusual about father wanting to see his daughter is there no [Music] all right adam i'll be right over [Music] don't you think that's rather strange strange no it's strange about it tell you what i'll do i'll go to the church and work on the clock while you're with your father and you can buy and pick me up later i'm so afraid so pointless wanted to see me alone and his voice sound is so different you know what you're gonna say come in is something wrong mr wilson is here on a very serious matter we must try to help him every way possible he wants to ask a few questions of you what what what do you want to know mr wilson you know about the body that was discovered yesterday mr rankin yes did you ever meet the deceased no no no i never met him have you seen the body no well then uh how can you be sure you never met him of course i can't be certain mr wilson you suspect me or something if so what i'm shielding a murderer perhaps this photograph will refresh your memory do you recognize this man that is conrad meineke commander in charge of one of the more efficient concentration camps you know him don't you you have met him here in harper no no i i've never seen that man mr wilson uh judge would you mind putting out the lights i've been showing your father some films and i'd like you to see them too i'm on the allied commission for the punishment of war criminals it's my job to bring escape nazis to justice it's that job that brought me to harper well surely you don't think that mr wilson i've never i've never so much has even seen a nazi well you might without your realizing it they look like other people and act like other people when it's to their benefit a gas chamber mrs rankin the candidates were first given hot showers so that their paws would be open and the gas would act that much more quickly and this is a lime pit in which hundreds of men women and children were buried alive why do you want me to look at these horrors all this you're seeing it's all the product of one mind the mind of a man named franz kindler franz kindler yes he was the most brilliant of the younger minds of the nazi party it was kindler who conceived the theory of genocide mass depopulation of conquered countries so that regardless of who won the war germany would emerge the strongest nation in western europe biologically speaking unlike gables himmler and the rest of them kindler had a passion for anonymity the newspapers carried no picture of him oh no and just before he disappeared he destroyed every evidence that might link him to this past down to the last fingerprint there's no clue to the identity of franz kindler except one little thing he has a hobby that almost amounts to a mania clocks so of lots of people you yourself well i'm i'm not quite finished mrs rankin in prison in czechoslovakia a war criminal was awaiting execution this was conrad meineke one time executive officer for france kindler he was an obscenity on the face of the earth a stench of burning flesh was in his clothes but we gave him his freedom on the chance that he might lead me to kindler he let me hear mrs rankin and here i lost him until yesterday your dog rit found him for me but unfortunately meineke was dead and buried now in all the world there is only one person who can identify france kindler that person is the one who knows knows definitely who monica came to harper to see no there's nothing my charles is not an etsy you were in rankin's house during the afternoon of the day oh yes yes let anyone come while you were there not that i remember now i try hard to remember it's not so long ago only two weeks you were hanging curtains no one came were you alone all the time no who else was there charles he came right after his last class and we were together for more than an hour you you had nothing to link my husband with this man can you accept a wild suspicion it's a ridiculous suspicion you're trying to use me to implicate him and you can't you can't involve me in a lie and that's that's all it is is a lie it's a lie you know it's a lie mary wait a minute wait a minute sister [Music] uh you know that your welfare and noah's means more to me than anything don't you yes yes you've got to face this thing with complete honesty sister your entire happiness may well depend on your telling me the absolute truth mr wilson is right and you have innocently married a criminal well then there is no marriage there's no call upon your loyalty as a wife he's good he's good he wouldn't hurt any anybody except to protect somebody he loved his it's good well then the truth can't hurt him [Music] charles was not with you that afternoon sister i remember you saying so when you came home you're against him too adam yes you are you've never liked him that's why you don't believe me now leave us alone adam he's not an athlete he's not one of those people he's not leave us alone she has the facts now but she won't accept them they're too horrible for her to acknowledge not so much that rankin could be kindler but that she could ever have given her love to such a creature but we have one ally her subconscious it knows what the truth is and is struggling to be heard the will to truth within your daughter is much too strong to be denied look here wilson if he's not charles rankin we should be able to expose him without too much difficulty i'm not interested in proving that he isn't charles rankin i'm only interested in proving that he's france kindler how do you propose to do that through your daughter unless i'm mistaken she's headed for a breakdown that's the usual result of a person being inwardly divided rankin will recognize this and that's what i'm banking on what do you mean well he can't afford to trust the person approaching hysteria he won't he'll have to act he may try to escape before she collapses which would only be an admission of guilt or go on you may kill her you're shocked at my cold-bloodedness well not quite naturally you're a father it's because you are a father judge longstreet that i am talking to you like this naturally we'll try to prevent murder being done however the proof that murder is his aim would be the strongest evidence that your daughter could have charles [Music] listen strike for a hundred years after more than give us a trap charles just like you said mr wilson was there he tried to tell me that you're a nazi and i was supposed to believe it imagine you're being escaped nazi oh he thinks he's very clever that wilson his idea was to horrify me into telling him about the little man who did he say he thought i was a nazi franz kindly he made it all up just to trick me but i didn't tell him anything and i didn't tell father anything i out-faced both of them charles he'll be civil enough to prove you're not then we'll just find someone who is in your class at college and he'll identify you and that's all there'll be to it what you say is true he can't touch me you're quite safe if you were saying nothing i won't charles i promise i will they can torture him and i won't tell them anything like giants have awakened purple we must go down and greet them they must act naturally smile at them you understand yes are you all right yes i'm all right we'll face them darling and when she struck that angel started marching it was a sight to behold professor you sure knocked it off my hats off to you congratulations mr rankin what the rest of me didn't like what i want to know is she's going to chime all night long how's everybody going to get any sleep we'll face them darling oliver them chickens yours is going to be on and off roost they were 15 minutes sarah sarah i've told you i want these curtains drawn i don't like the sunlight streaming in it's bed for them mary that's rubbish and you know it up at the other house we never it they have nothing to do with it this is my house and i want them drawn suit yourself then who's going to look mighty gloomy for the party is it that time already were you able to see when they opened the grave mr randall wasn't too horrible well not the most pleasant side oh there's nary hello mary [Music] fill in our prescriptions that's part of this business i hate sleeping pills that's another dollar sixty-five okay one rat sleeping pill don't approve up no man does days work man gets a night's sleep at least weighs it good until that clock starts i believe mrs rankin uh ordered some ice cream ice cream yeah already gone fella said he was going past your house so give it to him mr wilson wouldn't dream of setting foot outside the house unless fred were alone who knows he might be anywhere the murderer i mean waiting for a new victim i hope you have forgotten you were kind enough to invite me mrs rankin no of course not mr wilson oh mr potter asked me to deliver this oh the ice cream is good and sarah's waiting for it i hope it hasn't melted well i won't detain you any longer now i have a drink for you oh just let us know you know dr hipperd oh yes of course how are you doctor just fine excuse me yes grandma laurence can i get you something oh nothing more than you did we're telling you to go away oh he'll be here in just a few minutes i won't have a word with him about that clock yes oh thank you very much three weeks ago yes i'm my last trip may i get you so much time and jack and what was that frenchman's name oh hello dear hello earth lion brood yes there may well be ten or a dozen graves out there in those woods they showed the murders committed just three weeks ago may i get you somebody oh thank you now jeff may i get you and i wish i could remember what emerson says about crime oh there's rankin he may know sorry to be late i'm fine hello everybody darling oh oh hello there rankin hi mr wilson you know the quotation heaven emerson quotations are crime and the earth is made of glass no i don't commit a crime when the earth is made of glass commit a crime commit a crime and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole you cannot recall the spoken word you cannot wipe out the foot track you cannot draw up the ladder so is to leave no inlet or clue you're mr wilson aren't you do you know you're our number one suspect in our murder case oh so far you're the only suspect potter put the finger on you he thinks you committed the crime to get possession of some priceless ants mr wilson mr rankin i wish you left that clock alone harper was a nice quiet place until they started banging mary what's wilson doing here i don't know you invited him didn't you what's he after i don't know are you all right yes quite all i right friday yes all right good night can i help you again no no no no mary mary [Music] it broke and the beads fell all over the floor it took her upstairs when i left i could still hear her crying only floodgates have opened her subconscious is almost won now on we must know every move that mrs rankin makes she's never to leave the house unless i know where she's going if for any reason i can't be found she's to be detained no matter on what pretext you understand sarah don't worry she won't get behind me when she snapped those beads she signed her own death wand when carrying her life in our hands every time she walks on a slippery sidewalk is near something that can fall drives an automobile anything that could result in accidental death her life is in danger she won't get by me [Music] so good afternoon gentlemen today we will attempt to finish with the career of friedrich the grosser kunig van poison court forceful brandenburg prince von paulin frederick the great to you [Music] eight hello oh mary all right this is charles can you hear me dear i can't speak very loudly where i am but i want you to understand this something very important has come up you must come to the church immediately the church tower you understand yes i understand i don't want anybody to know that you're going there mary don't tell anybody you're going go to the church tower and leave your car in the rear coming through the back door okay yes watch that mr peabody you're removed gone someplace where too i asked you where you was going miss mary i heard well sarah you seem to forget i am no longer a child i'm a married woman well you ain't been married very long wait mrs rankin what is it i'm in a hurry but you don't need to go biting my head off what is it sarah well i know if you've got something to say say it what is it sarah i don't know what's got into you lately indeed i don't you never was mean to me like this back at the old house here i am maybe i might want my usefulness i'm not as young as i used to be maybe you don't won't be around anymore i haven't said stop talking such nonsense well it's true and you know it i'm gonna pack my thing to leave here indeed i am sarah i'm sorry if i've hurt your feelings i didn't mean to really i didn't sarah now i couldn't get along without you and you know that don't you but don't you honestly honestly honestly sarah sarah sarah please wait just me sarah you will never leave me will you you know how i feel about you don't you yes i do it's like it was my own daughter my own little girl how could i sarah i've got to go now really i do i promise to be somewhere well but where to miss mary stop fussing sarah it's a secret what's the matter what's better stay with me i won't leave you one three-year-old please yes mary look i was supposed to meet charles at the clock tower and right away and i can't get there will you go and tell him to please wait for me and no i no one's to know where or why you're going it's important all right 238 please hello may i speak to mr wilson looks like it's coming up for snow yes that's right oh mrs rand this is lundstrom listen it after hours you ladies are working too hard at the library oh no mr rankin we closed as usual at 3 30. we are perfectly right i dismissed class 10 minutes early yes all right it's 3 44. i was playing checkers with mr potter and i didn't realize you know what you are mr rankin you're the absent-minded professor you sure are lucky today i am and you sure are yeah no mr potter afternoon mr hill sorry mr potter i can't find him what the earbuds head right over there by the mittens come on mr potter help us look well i'll react back to the mr professor i know whatever that box where i told you there was goals latest thing out how much do you want 85 cents well that's an awful lot well they come higher this year [Music] you want this thing uh i'll keep it you know mr paulie you're a bad influence i uh i intend to only spend a couple of minutes you maybe spend the whole afternoon look what time it is yeah i'd like to get even it's your move you really had the wind up god you can still smell the glue where you joined it [Music] looks there professionally i could do it's coming up for snow [Music] so okay professor [Music] double or nothing [Music] good afternoon mr potter [Music] charles [Music] he didn't go to church no no sarah what about sarah just as i was leaving sarah had some kind of an attack she's resting now yes and jeff said it wasn't very serious but that i i should stay with him what's the matter chance what is the matter and why did you want me to go to the church you said it was important this is important i think actually it's my sense of proportion is failing me these days please charles what is i'm sorry [Music] i just begun to feel a strain you see i have my weak moments too i'll tell you of my own go-to they found out anything more no i think it's not going to find out unless you oh no i've seen anybody all day i've been in my room there's a rumor going around that there's an arrest to be made my headaches the incident of the beast yesterday made me doubt your strength i thought maybe you'd gone to your father and told him something if you had you didn't have to be afraid how did you tell noah why what about didn't you see him no why should i see no one but did you come here directly from the church am i being cross-examined oh no but when i found i couldn't leave sarah i called no one told him to go there and tell you i was detained i told you not to call anybody but surely not call him and tell him not to go well i can't i talked to him over here what am i saying he's gone if he dies his blood will be on your hands what are you saying that's done this could have been all right [Music] if he goes to the church and climbs up that ladder was i you intended to kill wasn't it no why wasn't it [Music] kill me tell me i want you to i couldn't face life knowing what i've been to you and what i've done to noah but when you kill me don't put your hands on me here joseph mary [Music] operator uh operator get me the state please yes the roadblocks are up we're watching the railroad station and he's in hiding in the woods [Music] so [Applause] [Music] you get worse [Music] well if he is what i think he is it's got to be easy we'll do everything possible to bring back she's gone mr wilson she's not in the house i don't know but if that's what he's hiding if she gets there before us what do we do call captain samuels and the deputies get all the help the church the church what about you i'll get there hurry up now what are your sister maybe still alive [Music] don't move i have a gun you don't need it i'm alone what are you doing here lift me up you're telling the truth why should i lie you were followed here i came by our way through the cemetery no one saw me [Music] i needed the excuse i was afraid you would let me out what do you want i came to kill you no no mary it's you that's gonna die you were meant to fall through that ladder you're going to fall i don't mind if i take you with me you are a fool i search the woods i watch them here like god looking into the lands i'll hide in the woods don't search there again a day or two they'll be sure i got them they find me they'll know you're still here for darling you're on the verge of a breakdown now you've cracked why else would you leave your bed climb to an empty church during the dead of night any child could see you'd wind up killing yourself killing is what led you here it won't help you now look out the window look well that's that's an old trick mr wilson a very portrait tricks that's all you know is shreks i don't need any tricks no matter what happens to me tricks won't do you any good you're finished here franchindler citizens of harper they've come after you complained of ordinary people the ones you've been laughing at have france schindler well you can't fool them anymore oh sure you can kill me marry half the people down there but there's no escape you'd have a world that closed in on you till there was only harper that closed in on you and there was only this room and this room too is closing in on you it's not true the things they say i did it's all their idea i followed orders you gave the orders i i only did my duty don't send me back to them i can't face them i'm not a criminal you are [Music] [Music] give me that [Music] all right mr wilson very safe let me give you a hand no no no no no thanks all right what happened v-day and harper don't get that come on down oh not to get me a new ladder i've had my ankle busted my head cocked from here on in my friends i'm taking it easy well i'll get you another ladder mr wilson you've had enough trouble good night mary pleasant dreams [Music]

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The Stranger (1946)

Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller [USA:Approved, 1 h 35 min]
Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale
Director: Orson Welles

IMDb rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7.4/10 (14,280 votes)

Wilson of the War Crimes Commission is seeking Franz Kindler, mastermind of the Holocaust, who has effectively erased his identity. Wilson releases Kindler's former comrade Meinike and follows him to Harper, Connecticut, where he 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. (IMDb)

Critical reception:

The Stranger holds an aggregate 96% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 critic reviews, including two contemporaneous reviews. The sole "rotten" review is that of New York Times critic Bosley Crowther, published in July 1946. Crowther called the film a "bloodless, manufactured show" in which Welles "gave no illusion of the sort of depraved and heartless creatures that the Nazi mass-murderers were. He is just Mr. Welles, a young actor, doing a boyishly bad acting job in a role which is highly incredible—another weak feature of the film. As a matter of fact, the writing of The Stranger, by Anthony Veiller, is the weakest thing about it—and that estimation includes another silly performance by Loretta Young as the killer's wife. For the premise is not only farfetched, but the whole construction of the tale relieves very soon all the mystery and suspense that such a story should have." (Wikipedia)

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