Review of Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) by Dan B — 03 Jan 2008
This noirish thriller is really a 2 star movie but it gets extra points for Nicholas Musuraca's expressionist cinematography. (He also shot Cat People, The Spiral Staircase and Out of the Past). The plot is some coincidence laden hokum and (according to imdb) Peter Lorre's top billed performance was the result of him needing to fulfill two more days work on his RKO contract.
This is really a B movie, peopled with second string players, but there are nice touches like the inattentive judge and the film is worth a look just for the nightmare sequence in the middle.
This review of Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) was written by Dan B on 03 January 2008.
Stranger on the Third Floor has generally received positive reviews.
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