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* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Meinike finds religion during his time in jail and decides to dedicate the rest of his life to atoning for his participation in the Holocaust. Before he makes any real progress on this goal he gets done in by his old boss Kindler, who decides that HeKnowsTooMuch.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Kindler does away with Meinike for this reason, as Meinike is the only person still alive who knows what he looks like. He also tries to kill Mary for the same reason, becoming concerned that she may accidentally give away his involvement in Meinike's disappearance.
* KickTheDog: A literal example, as Kindler kicks Mary's dog to stop it from digging up Meinike's corpse before locking it in the basement overnight and finally poisoning it.
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* SayingTooMuch: Kindler, when someone mentions Karl Marx being German, can't help but reply "Marx wasn't German, he was a Jew", leading Wilson to realize that he's a Nazi.
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* FakeFaint: Sara simulates a stroke, so that Mary stays with her instead of going to the clock tower and falling into the trap set by Franz.
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* DeathByIrony: Franz ends up [[spoiler:impaled on the sword of an automaton activated by the clock that he himself repaired earlier]].
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Franz ends up [[spoiler:impaled on the sword of an automaton activated by the tower clock]].
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* OldRetainer: Sara has served Mary for a very long time and is attached to her employer. She does everything she can, up to simulating a stroke, to prevent Mary from falling into the trap set by Franz.
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* TrickAndFollowPloy: Wilson decides to release Meinike, a Nazi, so that he leads him to Franz Kindler, an important war criminal.
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* TakeThat: Welles settled on the name Charles Rankin for the fugtive Nazi villain due to his dislike of the infamous white supremacist politician John E. Rankin.
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* TakeThat: Welles settled on the name Charles Rankin for the fugtive fugitive Nazi villain due to his dislike of the infamous white supremacist politician John E. Rankin.
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* HeelFaithTurn: Meinike has found religion following the war, and wants to atone for his crimes during his time under Kindler's command, namely by trying to save Kindler's soul too. He fails.
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* HeelFaithTurn: Meinike has found religion following the war, and wants to atone for his crimes during his time under Kindler's command, namely by trying to save Kindler's soul too. He fails.fails, as Kindler/Rankin will have none of it.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Kindler/Rankin ends up being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled on the clock tower]] that he has spent much of the film restoring, and where he tried to kill Mary.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Kindler/Rankin [[spoiler:Kindler/Rankin ends up being [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaled on the clock tower]] that he has spent much of the film restoring, and where he tried to kill Mary.]]
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* HeelFaithTurn: Meinike has found religion following the war, and wants to atone for his crimes during his time under Kindler's command.
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-->'''Orson Welles:''' No, you must not miss the newsreels. They make a point this week no man can miss: The war has strewn the world with corpses, none of them very nice to look at. The thought of death is never pretty but the newsreels testify to the fact of quite another sort of death, quite another level of decay. This is a putrefaction of the soul, a perfect spiritual garbage. For some years now we have been calling it Fascism. The stench is unendurable.
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-->--'''Franz Kindler/Charles Kindler, alias Charles Rankin'''
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Rankin supported Thurmond
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Kindler, pretending to be the anti-fascist "Charles Rankin", claims that the desire for authoritarian leadership is inherent in the German mentality and uses this as an argument for the complete destruction of the German nation and culture -- which, ironically, makes him sound just like the Nazi he actually is. When another person challenges his opinion by pointing out that Germany also produced great democratic thinkers like Karl Marx, Kindler argues that Marx wasn't German, but a Jew, thereby giving himself away to Wilson (since only a Nazi would deny Marx being German because of his Jewish heritage).
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* FinalSolution: Kindler is revealed to have been one of the architects of the Holocaust. ''The Stranger'' also shows actual footage of the concentration camps and was one of the first fictional films to do so. Welles stated later, that film-makers must take every opportunity they get to show this footage.
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** Kindler is revealed to have been one of the architects of the Holocaust. ''The Stranger'' also shows actual footage of the concentration camps and was one of the first fictional films to do so. Welles stated later, that film-makers must take every opportunity they get to show this footage.
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** Even while pretending to be an American intellectual staunchly opposed to fascism, Kindler's Nazi beliefs shine through when, during a discussion about how to deal with post-war Germany, he claims that Germans are inherently drawn to authoritarianism and advocates for a "Carthaginian peace" to ensure that they'll never be able to threaten the world again.
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* NeverMyFault: Kindler tries to justify his evils:
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* NeverMyFault: Kindler tries to justify his evils:deflect blame more than once:
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* NeverMyFault: Kindler tries to justify his evils:
** After he sets a trap for Mary at the church, he is upset when Mary tells him that she sent Noah to the church in her place. Kindler tells her that Noah's blood will be on ''Mary's'' hands and that it was her meddling that caused Noah's death, even though Mary had no idea there was any danger, and in fact the trap was intended to kill her.
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** After he sets a trap for Mary at the church, he is upset when Mary tells him that she sent Noah to the church in her place. Kindler tells her that Noah's blood will be on ''Mary's'' hands and that it was her meddling that caused Noah's death, even though Mary had no idea there was any danger, and in fact the trap was intended to kill her.
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No relation to [[Literature/TheStranger the novel]] by Creator/AlbertCamus.
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No relation to [[Literature/TheStranger the novel]] by Creator/AlbertCamus.
Creator/AlbertCamus or the [[Film/TheStranger2022 2022 Australian crime film]].
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Kindler/Rankin ends up being impaled on the clock tower that he has spent much of the film restoring, and where he tried to kill Mary.]]
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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: An escalating case with Kindler. First he just insists on penning up Mary's dog Red. Later he kicks Red and poisons him, albeit to cover up his murder of Meinike.
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* TakeThat: Welles settled on the name Charles Rankin for the fugtive Nazi villain due to his dislike of the infamous right-wing politician John E. Rankin.
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* NoOSHACompliance: The church's clock tower is a deathtrap, with the main access to the clock mechanism being a rickety ladder.
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''The Stranger'' is a 1946 FilmNoir directed by Creator/OrsonWelles, starring Welles, Creator/EdwardGRobinson, and Loretta Young.
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''The Stranger'' is a 1946 FilmNoir directed by Creator/OrsonWelles, starring Welles, Creator/EdwardGRobinson, and Loretta Young.Creator/LorettaYoung.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: A casual discussion of the German character turns to Creator/KarlMarx, which leads the ostensably anti-Nazi Rankin to respond by saying, "But Marx wasn't a German; Marx was a Jew." [[SpottingTheThread This causes Wilson to realize that "Charles Rankin" is in fact the man he's been hunting.]]
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: A casual discussion of the German character turns to Creator/KarlMarx, which leads the ostensably ostensibly anti-Nazi Rankin to respond by saying, "But Marx wasn't a German; Marx was a Jew." [[SpottingTheThread This causes Wilson to realize that "Charles Rankin" is in fact the man he's been hunting.]]
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this film was made over a decade before anyone knew where Eichmann was or even if he were still alive
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Franz Kindler is heavily based on Adolf Eichmann. Like Eichmann, Kindler is described as one of the primary minds behind the Holocaust, and both fled west to hide in the Americas under false identities.
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* AntiHero: Mr. Wilson openly calls himself "cold-blooded" and his methods reflect that, but he's still a NaziHunter.
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The film is in the public domain, and can be viewed in multiple places online, as well as through many DVD and Blu-ray releases. MGM owns the elements though, and Olive Films worked with them to release an "official" DVD and Blu-ray.
