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The Stranger
1946 · Film · 95 min
Directed by Orson Welles
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
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I usually like to find classic literature and then find the movie for it.
Some gold ones: -The Stranger, Camus. Bring the book to life -Nabokov novel
My favorite movies, but for no particuliar reason:
Platoon
Wall street
Three days of the condor
Chinatown
Sunset Boulevard
The Stranger(actually all of Orson Wells movies)
Any Andy Griffith episode
Bicycle thieves 1948
Niagara
Double indemnity (actually most billy wilder films)
The Misfits (last film for Marilyn and Rhett Butler--forgot his name.)
Giant
Rebal without a cause
Leaving Las Vegas
Blow out (all three)
Saturday night fever
Yes, even Urban Cowboy
One flew over the cocos nest
Deliverance
Hanna and her sisters
East of Eden
Dr. Strange love
Back to the future
Jaws
In cold blood(with Robert Blake)
In cold blood (with Eric Roberts, and forget his name)
The asphalt jungle 1948?
All about eve
The hot rock
Little Haus Big Halsey (Redford said it was his worst movie. Yes, it's masagonistic. Yes, he plays a jerk. But the movie captures the 70's I recall as a kid. The filming is great. His side kick in the movie did a great job playing a sweet, innocent, country teen.)
A lot of foreign films I have yet to see.
As a child, watching the Tonight show I really liked the episodes when Orson Welles was on!
In a Film Appreciation course in college--the only movie I really liked was Citizen Kane. The camera work was brilliant.
I actually liked all his movies, and they didn't become dated with age. I would like to see The Stranger Remastered, but that's another topic.
As to embellishment--he knew Hollwood, why not play with them? Hollywood is magic, and escapism; why not quild the lilly? It's not like he didn't know the real problems of his generation--people dying in wars, the depression, being accused by Mccarthy.
(I have an off topic question about remastering old film/video. This is really off topic, but here goes. As a child I really liked a The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. It was a made for t.v movie and shot on video tape(I believe). For years the only copies of the film were severely degraded. So degraded, I was told it was beyond remastering. I noticed Starz had it in their line up. I watched the movie and someone did a great job remastering the old video tape. Does anyone know who did the work? I couldn't find anything.)