The Stranger (1946)
Directed by Orson Welles · Cinematography by Russell Metty
Approved95 min65 frames
ThrillerCrime
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What is The Stranger about?
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished professor engaged to the Supreme Court Justice’s daughter.
The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring himself along with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, it centers on war crimes investigator Wilson tracking high-ranking Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler to a Connecticut town. It was the first Hollywood film to incorporate actual documentary footage of the Holocaust.
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What does the cinematography of The Stranger look like?
Sampled across 65 frames, the coverage of The Stranger leans on medium shots (46% of the sample) and close-ups (42%). Cinematographer Russell Metty keeps 43% of it in hard-edged, chiaroscuro light. Night and dusk account for 63% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 75% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
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The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Stranger (1946) are #020202, #303030, #8e8e8d, #fbfbfb, #6d6d6d, #afafaf — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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