Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 American film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, and Charles...
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Film noir (section Directors and the business of noir)
the B movie scale, Stranger on the Third Floor still lost its studio, RKO, US$56,000 (equivalent to $1,217,900 in 2023), almost a third of its total cost...
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best-known leading role was with Peter Lorre in the film noir Stranger on the Third Floor (1940). She was the great-granddaughter of Albert Tallichet, an...
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directors of photography in the 1930s. His Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) is sometimes considered the first film-noir. While working regularly at...
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Peter Lorre (category Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to the United States)
In the first of these, Lorre appeared as the anonymous lead in the B-picture Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), reputedly the first film noir. The second...
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Hester Pringle Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) – Mrs. Kane, Michael's landlady Dead Men Tell (1941) – Miss Patience Nodbury Billy the Kid (1941) – Mrs...
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Steamboat Round the Bend (1935); Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936);The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936); Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), sometimes...
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listed in the list of neo-noir titles. The Letter[b][c] Rebecca[b] Stranger on the Third Floor — horror noir [b][c] They Drive by Night[b] Among the Living[b][c]...
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was a screenwriter on several films. He made his directorial debut in 1940 with the film noir movie Stranger on the Third Floor. In the 1950s and 1960s he...
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one of Ingster's two films noir, the other being Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), an early picture in the genre. The US Secret Service searches for a...
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Low-key lighting (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
be seen in the 1940 film noir Stranger on the Third Floor, which used the lighting contrast to highlight the fantastical qualities of the environment...
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for Finian's Rainbow and one in 1954 for The Teahouse of the August Moon. Features: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) as Cab Driver (uncredited) Portrait...
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of the movement include Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937), the b-film Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) and I Wake Up Screaming (1941) and the first...
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Nathanael West (category People from the Upper West Side)
Million (1939) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) The Spirit of Culver (1940) Men Against the Sky (1940) Let's Make Music (1940) Before the Fact (1940, not...
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Austin / Norman Hazlitt He Married His Wife (1940) as Dicky Brown Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) as Joe Briggs Public Deb No. 1 (1940) as Communist Tin...
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Allrovi. Archived from the original on December 23, 2011. Retrieved August 25, 2011. Erickson, Hal. "Stranger on the Third Floor - Cast, Reviews, Summary...
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B movie (section Transition in the 1950s)
careers or entirely in retrospect. The movie now widely described as the first classic film noir, Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), a 64-minute B, was produced...
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Frank Partos (category Hungarian emigrants to the United States)
the early years to the talkie era. In 1939 he moved to RKO Radio Pictures, where he collaborated on the early noir film Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)...
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Charles Judels (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Paradise Cafe owner Girl from Avenue A (1940) – Waiter (uncredited) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) – Nick Nanbajan – Cafe Owner (uncredited) Hired Wife (1940)...
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William Edmunds (actor) (category Italian emigrants to the United States)
Train Conductor (uncredited) The Great McGinty (1940) as Poll Watcher at Gymnasium (uncredited) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) as Gardener (uncredited)...
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the 1940s. He was also responsible for producing what many consider to be the first film noir, 1940's Stranger on the Third Floor. Marcus was born on...
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Curtain Call (1940) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) I Married a Witch (1942) Joan of Paris (1942) The Magnificent Ambersons...
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(2006) Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) Stranger in Town: (1931 & 1957) A Stranger in Town: (1943 & 1967) The Stranger's Return...
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Vince Barnett (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Porchy Heroes of the Saddle (1940) - Night Watchman East Side Kids (1940) - Whisper Boys of the City (1940) - Simp Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) - Cafe...
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1940 in film (redirect from 1940 in the cinema)
Lockwood – (GB) The Stationmaster (Der postmeister) – (Germany) Strange Cargo, starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford Stranger on the Third Floor, starring...
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(uncredited) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) - Albert Meng Foreign Correspondent (1940) - Bradley Young People (1940) - Moderator The Westerner (1940)...
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RKO Pictures (category Film distributors of the United States)
themselves, became something of a house style at the studio; indeed, the RKO B Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) is widely seen as initiating noir's classic...
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back is a 1935 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene Ray and Frank Cellier...
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List of RKO Pictures films (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Retrieved January 30, 2016. "Stranger on the Third Floor: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 30, 2016. "The Ramparts We Watch: Detail...
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Out West with the Peppers (1940) as Ole The Great McGinty (1940) as Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) as Detective...
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