Fascism On Film - Episode 15 - The Stranger
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The episode discusses Orson Welles's film 'The Stranger' in the context of fascism and its portrayal in relation to historical events.
Welcome to the fifteenth episode of our ongoing series: Fascism On Film. Each episode of this series, the Holmes Brothers look and review a film that has to do with fascism. During the episodes, the brothers look and see how the aspects and portrayal of fascism shown in the film relate to current and/or past events. On this Fascism on Film episode, the Holmes Brothers along with friend of the podcast Richard Bruno sit down to discuss Orson Welles's The Stranger. Released in 1946, it stars Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. The Stranger is a film noir thriller set in a small town in Connecticut. This was Welles's third film as a director and his first film noir picture. After the making of The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles took on the job of directing this film to show he could make a film under budget and under schedule. And more importantly, a successful film. His last two films, Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, were not successful at the box office. The Stranger stars Robinson as Agent Wilson, a war crimes investigator for the United Nations, is on the hunt for a Nazi war criminal hiding in plain sight under a new identity. The man he is after…
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