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Love from a Stranger (1947 film)

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Director
  
Richard Whorf

Music director
  
Hans J. Salter

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama, Mystery, Romance

Screenplay
  
Philip MacDonald

Country
  
United States

Love from a Stranger (1947 film) movie poster

Release date
  
November 15, 1947 (1947-11-15) (United States)

Based on
  
the play Love from a Stranger the short-story "Philomel Cottage"  by Frank Vosper Agatha Christie

Writer
  
Philip MacDonald (screenplay), Frank Vosper (play), Agatha Christie (story)

Cast
  
John Hodiak
(Manuel Cortez),
Sylvia Sidney
(Cecily Harrington),
Ann Richards
(Mavis Wilson),
John Howard
(Nigel Lawrence),
Isobel Elsom
(Auntie Loo-Loo),
Ernest Cossart
(Billings)

Similar movies
  
The Morning After (1986), Rebecca (1940), Sylvia Sidney appears in Love from a Stranger and Sabotage, Stolen (2010), Strangers on a Train (1951)

Tagline
  
He lied, cheated, and killed all in the name of love.

Love from a Stranger is a 1947 American film directed by Richard Whorf and starring John Hodiak and Sylvia Sidney. The film is also known as A Stranger Walked In in the United Kingdom.

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Love from a stranger


Plot

Love from a Stranger (1947 film) Film Review Love From A Stranger 1937 The Agatha Christie Reader

A woman fears her new husband will kill her.

Cast

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  • John Hodiak as Manuel Cortez
  • Sylvia Sidney as Cecily Harrington
  • Ann Richards as Mavia
  • John Howard as Nigel Lawrence
  • Isobel Elsom as Auntie Loo-Loo
  • Ernest Cossart as Billings
  • Philip Tonge as Dr. Gribble
  • Anita Sharp-Bolster as Ethel (the maid)
  • Frederick Worlock as Insp. Hobday
  • Critical response

    Thomas M. Pryor, the film critic at The New York Times, gave the film a lukewarm review. He wrote, "It may well be that some will find a modicum of excitement in Love From a Stranger. But the average moviegoer is a pretty 'hep' customer and the chances are he will be so far ahead of the story that its climactic scene will explode with all the thunder of a cap pistol."

    Critic Craig Butler also had problems with the film, mostly the script. He wrote, "A moderately entertaining mystery flick (the story of which was better served when it was originally filmed in 1937), Love from a Stranger is an adequate but unexciting way to spend an hour and a half or so. Stranger wants to be a clever thriller, and it starts out well. Unfortunately, about halfway through it becomes rather obvious, and so the necessary suspense is simply lacking."

    References

    Love from a Stranger (1947 film) Wikipedia
    Love from a Stranger (1947 film) IMDb Love from a Stranger (1947 film) themoviedb.org