Episode 298: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

The Projection Booth

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Directed by Boris Ingster with a screenplay by Frank Partos , Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) defines the stylistic conventions that would come to be known as film noir. The movie stars John McGuire as a hot shot reporter and Margaret Tallichet as his best gal (who eventually becomes the protagonist). He's framed for a murder committed by the man only known as "The Stranger" (Peter Lorre).
Maitland McDonagh and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss this first entry in the film noir pantheon as well as what it helped spawn. Author Stephen D. Youngkin joins the program to talk about the captivating Peter Lorre.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:19.7	I ought to ring your neck. Are you What do you want?
1:00.3	Who are you?
1:01.8	Hey!
1:03.1	Wait a minute.
1:09.2	He's always spying on me.
1:11.3	He probably had his ear glued to the wall from the minute we came up here.
1:14.1	Forget it, darling.
1:15.6	You have stated that you're absolutely certain.
1:17.9	This is the man you saw in Nix on both occasions.
1:20.5	Now be careful, because on your answer may depend a man's life.
1:26.1	Are you absolutely positive?
1:28.4	He's the same man.
1:30.6	I am.
1:31.5	No!
1:32.6	Come on, son.
1:34.2	No!
1:36.6	I can do it!
1:38.0	I...
1:38.1	I...
1:39.2	I...
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