Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Aug 16, 1940 Wide
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Though he doesn't speak his first line of dialogue until the film's final ten minutes, Peter Lorre spiritually dominates the fascinating RKO melodrama Stranger on the Third Floor. The plotline is carried by John McGuire, playing Ward, a newspaper reporter whose courtroom testimony sends the hapless Briggs (Elisha Cook Jr). to the death house. Ward is certain that he saw Briggs leaving the scene of a murder, but as the days pass, he is tortured by guilt and doubt -- especially during the film's
Aug 16, 1940 Wide
Oct 16, 1991
RKO Radio Pictures
All Critics (9) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (1) | DVD (2)
... a paranoid murder thriller that, for all of its budgetary constraints, took viewers on a spiral of justified paranoia.
This low-budget B film is thought by many to be the first true film noir.
an early noirish thriller with cool paranoid dream sequence and a nice creepy performance by lorre as an escaped psycho.
August 13, 2008
Super Reviewer
A good little B-movie about a journalist whose eyewitness testimony convicts a potentially innocent man of murder. The journalist himself then becomes a victim of circumstantial evidence after his despised neighbour is murdered. The plot is contrived and overuses both flashback and voice-over, but there's an excellent
January 8, 2008Super Reviewer
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