Critics and fans agree: Stranger on the Third Floor is the little B picture that launched one of the greatest movements in cinema history: film noir. Peter Lorre plays the eerie title role in this once-neglected gem about a reporter (John McGuire) whose testimony sentences a small-time loser (Elisha Cook Jr.) to the electric chair for murder. When the reporter himself is fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger -- but will anyone believe him? All the shadowy, shivery, angled angst of German Expressionism is here, married to the hard-boiled moral ambiguity that marks the genre. The highlight: a suspense-and-sweat-drenched dream sequence that jolted 1940 audiences into an exciting new way of looking at the movies.
DVD Details
>Rated: NR
>Runtime: 1 hours, 4 minutes
>Video: Black & White
>Encoding: Region 1(US & Canada)
>Originally Released: 1940
>Label: Warner
Starring: Peter Lorre;John Mcguire;Margaret Tallichet;Charles Waldron
DVD Details
>Rated: NR
>Runtime: 1 hours, 4 minutes
>Video: Black & White
>Encoding: Region 1(US & Canada)
>Originally Released: 1940
>Label: Warner
Starring: Peter Lorre;John Mcguire;Margaret Tallichet;Charles Waldron
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