A Stranger in Town (1943)
Directed by Roy Rowland
Approved67 min138 frames
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What is A Stranger in Town about?
In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.
A Stranger in Town is a 1943 comedy-drama political film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Roy Rowland and produced by Robert Sisk from an original screenplay by Isobel Lennart and William Kozlenko. The film has a music score by Daniele Amfitheatrof and Nathaniel Shilkret, and cinematography by Sidney Wagner.
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What does the cinematography of A Stranger in Town look like?
Sampled across 137 frames, the coverage of A Stranger in Town leans on medium shots (55% of the sample) and wide compositions (18%). The lighting keeps 63% of it in soft, naturalistic light. This is largely a daylight film — 66% of the frames play in daylight. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 69% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.
What is the color palette of A Stranger in Town?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of A Stranger in Town (1943) are #34302b, #555049, #897b6d, #50463a, #d1c7b3, #918777 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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