Stranger On The Third Floor Review

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.

Stranger on the third floor review. William wyler and elisha cook jr. Stranger on the third floor peter lorre john mcguire margaret tallichet 1940 a new york reporter john mcguire and his fiancee margaret tallichet think an odd little man peter lorre in a scarf is a throat slasher. 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. With peter lorre john mcguire margaret tallichet charles waldron.

Widely considered the first film noir stranger on the third floor is a breezy strange journey through one man s mind and the american. 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. Stranger on the third floor yarn concerns a stern newspaper reporter whose testimony proves the circumstantial evidence that convicts an innocent man. Mcguire plays mike ward a reporter who is the key witness in a murder trial that ends with the defendant cook being found guilty.