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This low-budget B film is thought by many to be the first true film noir. Pretty creepy suspenser with unsettling Lorre performance. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted...
- Stranger on the Third Floor | Rotten Tomatoes
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. When upstart journalist...
- Stranger on the Third Floor | Rotten Tomatoes
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. When upstart journalist Michael Ward (John McGuire) testifies that he saw Joe Briggs (Elisha Cook Jr.) at the scene of a murder, Briggs is jailed and sentenced to...
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- Peter Lorre
- Boris Ingster
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Oct 2, 2020 · The other night, journalist Michael Ward (John McGuire), the lead of Boris Ingster’s Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), witnessed a murder. Or at least he thinks he did. He was peering through the windows of a diner and saw a man in there on the ground, his throat cut.
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...
A weird expressionist investigation of personal guilt that takes its jaunty, banal hero (McGuire) from the bright lights of a cafeteria into a strange interior odyssey. The plot revolves around...
Nov 15, 2023 · Before the hard-boiled world of suspicious private eyes, double-crossing dames and a nocturnal urban jungle where deals and double-crosses are hatched with often fatal payoffs of The Maltese Falcon, and the slippery narrative and visual expressionism of Citizen Kane (an influence on the genre and a close relative if not actually a member of the ...
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Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, and Charles Waldron, and featuring Elisha Cook Jr. It was written by Frank Partos .
