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Film The Stranger (1946)

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Generally held to be one of Orson Welles' minor films, The Stranger (1946) occupies an unenviable place in the maverick artist's filmography — it's one of the only instances in which he tamped down his intellectual sleights-of-hand at the behest of a studio. That said, even Welles' lesser offerings are worth watching, and this cynical noir is punchily entertaining. Pug-faced Edward G. Robinson stars as an FBI agent investigating a Nazi war criminal (played by Welles with his usual actor-y bravura) who has settled in a waspy Connecticut hamlet. A gripping chase climax caps Welles' foray into America's heart of darkness.

– Max Goldberg

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