# The Stranger (1946)

The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring himself along with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. The story follows war crimes investigator Mr. Wilson as he tracks down Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler, who has assumed a new identity as a teacher in a small Connecticut town. As Wilson uncovers Kindler's true identity, he faces a moral dilemma involving Kindler's fiancée, who is unaware of her husband's dark past.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1946
- By: Orson Welles
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Film noir, Mystery
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the-stranger-1946_202511)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1946; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2041. Unclear is not offered.