Stranger On The Third Floor Review

Stranger on the third floor yarn concerns a stern newspaper reporter whose testimony proves the circumstantial evidence that convicts an innocent man.

Stranger on the third floor review. Directed by boris ingster. William wyler and elisha cook jr. As much as this corner is in favor of bold experiments by new young directors we find it hard to sustain our arguments in the face of such pictures as boris ingster s stranger on the third floor. Mcguire plays mike ward a reporter who is the key witness in a murder trial that ends with the defendant cook being found guilty.

Stranger was the first feature directed by boris ingster a former associate of sergei eisenstein and later a producer on the 1960s spy series the man from u n c l e from a. An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner s throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself. Widely considered the first film noir stranger on the third floor is a breezy strange journey through one man s mind and the american. Peter lorre is the stranger on the third floor in this b movie from 1940 that stars john mcguire maria tallichet mrs.