{"id":18578,"date":"2026-05-17T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18578"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T01:53:07","slug":"the-stranger-1946-orson-welles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18578","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger (1946, Orson Welles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward G arranges for a desperate nazi to escape prison so he&#8217;ll lead them to the big man.  Eddie (just after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/162\">Scarlet Street<\/a><\/em>) gets knocked out and loses the trail of his guy (K Shayne of a Boetticher noir), so he doesn&#8217;t see Orson Welles strangle Shayne in the woods, decides to hang around this Connecticut town until more leads turn up.<\/p>\n<p><em>When your old nazi friend drops in on your wedding day:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/stranger1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Orson is so confident in his new wife Loretta Young (oscar winner the following year) that he admits to killing the &#8220;little man,&#8221; then when she doesn&#8217;t take this news well, he plots to murder her too.  Eddie helps tie up loose ends but it&#8217;s Loretta who shoots Orson before he&#8217;s stabbed by the town clock (my second movie this month to end in a <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18570\">big clock<\/a>).  Clockworker Richard Long is Loretta&#8217;s brother, appeared with Orson the same year in <em>Tomorrow Is Forever<\/em>.  The beginning of Welles&#8217;s dubbing problems, which would last the rest of his career.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/stranger2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Also rewatched <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/56\">Magnificent Ambersons<\/a><\/em> on the new blu, and learned some Welles tidbits.  Simon Callow explains the musical structure of the original cut very convincingly, making a case for what was lost when the studio recut the film.  Apparently Pearl Harbor was bombed on the last day of filming, then Orson disappeared to Brazil to shoot <em>It&#8217;s All True<\/em> on the studio&#8217;s dime during editing.  I just got derailed by a couple other books, but trying to get to the James Naremore biography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward G arranges for a desperate nazi to escape prison so he&#8217;ll lead them to the big man. Eddie (just after Scarlet Street) gets knocked out and loses the trail of his guy (K Shayne of a Boetticher noir), so he doesn&#8217;t see Orson Welles strangle Shayne in the woods, decides to hang around this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,1833,344,248,223],"class_list":["post-18578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-clock","tag-edward-g-robinson","tag-nazis","tag-orson-welles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18610,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18578\/revisions\/18610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}