Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third FloorThis classic but sometimes overlooked film is generally considered the first film noir, with its extraordinary, radically new look and tone, the product of stylized sets, bizarre angles and lighting, and a powerful blurring of dream and reality qualities strongly influenced by German expressionist films of the 1920s. A reporter (John McGuire) discovers a murder but via his well meaning testimony in the corrupt legal system ends up condemning an

It's a perfect plot to fleece the winsome mark

A simple disagreement over a choice of drapes in the hospital library sparks long-held tensions between staff members into a crisis that spreads to patients of the hospital

But Donald cannot speak

A sex farce involving a highly moraled woman and her more loose brother

James Mason and Rod Steiger head an "A" cast in a jolting

Filmed on location in several fabled Las Vegas and Los Angeles night spots

it's going to be a blast

Three years later

so he orders Frank's murder as well

even if all the stars did was sort socks

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Peter Lawford plays Revel