Stranger on the Third Floor

When a reporter whose testimony sentences a small-time loser to the electric chair for murder is himself fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger - but will anyone believe him?

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DVD-R Details

Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 4 minutes
Video: Black & White
Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
Released: September 21, 2010
Originally Released: 1940
Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		Peter Lorre
Performer:		John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook, Jr., Charles Halton, Ethel Griffies & Cliff Clark
Directed by		Boris Ingster
Edited by		Harry Marker
Screenwriting by		Frank Partos
Composition by		Roy Webb
Produced by		Lee Marcus
Director of Photography:		Nicholas Musuraca

Entertainment Reviews:

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Jul 8, 2004

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Feb 12, 2005

Parallax View

Feb 16, 2011

Description by OLDIES.com:

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.

Product Description:

When a reporter's testimony convicts an innocent man for murder, he is haunted by second thoughts.

Keywords:

Science-Fiction | Injustice | Murder

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