
The Stranger(1946)
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.



Edward G. Robinson
Professor Richard Wanley

Joan Bennett
Alice Reed

Raymond Massey
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor

Edmund Breon
Dr. Michael Barkstane

Dan Duryea
Heidt / Tim, the Doorman

Thomas E. Jackson
Inspector Jackson

Dorothy Peterson
Mrs. Wanley

Robert Blake
Dickie Wanley

Arthur Loft
Claude Mazard / Frank Howard / Charlie the Hatcheck Man
Frank Dawson
Collins, the Steward
The Woman in the Window is a crime, drama, thriller film released in 1944 exploring themes of dreams, window, scissors, professor, painting, college. Directed by Fritz Lang, it stars Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey. A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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