Stranger On The Third Floor

Starring: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, et al.

Critics and fans agree: Stranger on the Third Floor is the little B picture that launched one of the greatest movements in cinema history: film noir. Peter Lorre plays the eerie title role in this once-neglected gem about a reporter (John McGuire) whose testimony sentences a small-time loser (Elisha Cook Jr.) to the electric chair for murder. When the reporter himself is fingered in a second murder, he realizes both crimes are the work of a furtive stranger -- but will anyone believe him? All the shadowy, shivery, angled angst of German Expressionism is here, married to the hard-boiled moral ambiguity that marks the genre. The highlight: a suspense-and-sweat-drenched dream sequence that jolted 1940 audiences into an exciting new way of looking at the movies.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 883316270905
• Release Date: June 2011
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Warner Bros.
• Director: Boris Ingster
• Starring: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Halton, Ethel Griffies, Cliff Clark, Oscar O'Shea, Alec Craig
• Runtime: 1 hour, 4 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: ntsc
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.5" x 5.3" x 0.5"