This is Gala Avery reporting to you from inside the Video Archive Cinema Club, the 20-seat

secret cinema located within the Vista.

Today I am joined by Video Archive Cinema Club manager Matt Lansman to chat about the

calendar for the week of Monday, November 11th.

Hey Matt.

Welcome back, Gala.

Thank you so much. It's 11-11 today. Let's get on into the movies for the week of November 11th. Hey, Matt. Welcome back, Gala. Thank you so much. It's 1111 today. Let's get on into the movies for

the week of November 11th. Starting us off on Tuesday the 12th of November at 2 p.m. We have 1946's The Stranger.

Last week we mentioned Robin Hood, which almost had Orson Welles starring in it as Friar Tuck.

And this week, we actually do have an Orson Welles film that he is starring in and directed.

And he's an uncredited co-writer on it.

And he co-stars in this movie with Edward G. Robinson as a Nazi who has fled to Connecticut.

And it was one of the first movies to ever sort of feature

documentary footage intercut into it of the Holocaust, which was pretty powerful in the 40s,

of course, when the wounds were still fresh. So Edward G. Robinson in this movie plays this agent

who's tracking Franz Kindler, who's a Nazi that's played by Orson Wells.

And this movie actually sets up my next pick on the calendar somewhat as well because

Franz Kindler has gotten rid of every trace of his identity except for clocks, which leads

me to the big clock, which came out two years later.

But this is the last international RKO picture.

It was produced by Sam Spiegel.

And what's funny is that Wells did get creative control of this movie, but he wanted it to actually be about Agnes Moorhead playing this old spinster investigator chasing this Nazi, not Edward G. Robinson.

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