The Stranger - BLU-RAY

This Academy Award-nominated thriller follows Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi fugitive hiding out as a professor in a small Connecticut town. When his new wife (Loretta Young) begins to suspect his past, a detective (Edward G. Robinson) sets out to uncover his identity. BONUS FEATURES Audio commentary from filmmaker / historian / curator Bret Wood, Original Nazi concentration and prison camp footage (which are featured in the final film) from filmmaker George Stevens, Original Theatrical Trailer.

An ex-Nazi war criminal assumes a new identity and a new life in suburban America following World War II. But an agent from the U.N.'s War Crimes Commission is on his tail, threatening to expose the lurid past and true identity he keeps secret. Orson Welles directs and stars as Charles Rankin, a professor residing in a quiet Connecticut town with his new American wife, Mary (Loretta Young). Rankin has held strong to his fascist ideals but left nary a shred of evidence, not even a photograph, to identify him as the notorious Franz Kindler. Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), the man determined to find him, has a plan. But when that plan disappears in the woods, Wilson is left with little hope of convincing the townspeople, or Kindler's naive new wife, who this stranger in their midst really is.

In late-19th-century Paris, journalist and unrepentant cad Georges Duroy (George Sanders) determinedly seduces a string of women in his hunt for advancement in career and in station, leaving broken hearts and lives in his wake. His unending obsession with title and status, however, might have ironic repercussions. Director Albert Lewin's stylish take on the Guy de Maupassant novel also stars Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, Warren William, Frances Dee, John Carradine. 112 min.