The Stranger (1946) | Full Movie | Orson Welles | Edward G. Robinson | Loretta Young

Watch The Stranger (1946) Full Movie on The Film Detective. The Stranger is a post-war suspense film about an escaped Nazi who disguises himself as an ordinary high school teacher in a small town in Connecticut. An officer for the war crimes commission, Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), is tasked with tracking down Franz Kindler (Welles), a mastermind of the concentration camps who, in the aftermath of World War II, has erased all traces of his identity and settled into suburban conformity. It is Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, about a war crimes investigator tracking a high-ranking Nazi fugitive to a Connecticut town. It is the first Hollywood film to present documentary footage of the Holocaust. Director: Orson Welles Writers: Anthony Veiller, Victor Trivas Starring: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale