• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Charles Waldron (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) - District Attorney Street of Memories (1940) - Richard Havens The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) - Kurt Mirbach The Case...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • to work steadily through the 1940s and 1950s. Some of the more notable films he worked on include: Stranger on the Third Floor, a 1940 film noir starring...
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    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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    (uncredited) Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) - Albert Meng Foreign Correspondent (1940) - Bradley Young People (1940) - Moderator The Westerner (1940)...
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    - Sheriff (uncredited) Black Diamonds (1940) - Archie Connor Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) - Martin Brigham Young (1940) - Dissenter (uncredited)...
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    Philip Dorn (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    AND IN HOLLYWOOD: Peter Lorre Signed for Lead in RKO Picture 'Stranger on the Third Floor' 'WOMEN IN WAR' OPENING Elsie Janis Starred in Picture at Loew's...
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