# The Stranger (1946)

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**Runtime**: 95 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Orson Welles
**Written by**: Anthony Veiller
**Starring**: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale, Richard Long, Konstantin Shayne

> *The most deceitful man a woman ever loved!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Autumn in a New England college town, a pocket watch stops at 3:17.  
A man in a hat buys milk at dawn; another counts cracks in the sidewalk, lips moving silently.  
Classic noir paranoia, if noir wore tweed and quoted the Constitution over breakfast.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, neon-soaked, paranoid

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