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THE STRANGER (1946). Orson Welles plays a Nazi going undercover by teaching in a small town and marrying the daughter of a prominent citizen.. Things start to go south as an investigator looking for ex-Nazi's shows up and how He has to try to keep the deception going to stay free.
Welles didn't think much of TS and honestly, He's not the kind of performer You would have sympathy for and Loretta Young as his wife, though lovely, is incredibly naive and dense. The best parts of the film are Edward G Robinson as the investigator (he's very good) and a scene stealing performance by Billy House as a checkers playing pharmacist (it was driving Me crazy trying to figure out where I saw him and thanks to IMDB, recalled He played Lord Mortimer in BEDLAM the same year). Also a very early performance by Richard Long (CULT OF THE COBRA and TV's NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR) who was married for a time to Mara Corday (TARANTULA, THE GIANT CLAW and SUDDEN IMPACT). ***
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