Orson Welles is Brilliant as Franz Kindler an escaped Nazi who has found refuge as a teacher in a boys school in a small New England town. Since there are no pictures of him in existance and he destroyed all the evidence of his crimes he can be...
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Orson Welles is Brilliant as Franz Kindler an escaped Nazi who has found refuge as a teacher in a boys school in a small New England town. Since there are no pictures of him in existance and he destroyed all the evidence of his crimes he can be found only when Edward G. Robinson covinces the authorities to let a low level official Nazi who was a friend of Kindler escape from custody so he can be followed. Much of the Way it is Robinsons wife who tracks him in order to keep him from being suspicious. When Meinke(the man being tracked by Robinson) arrives at the home, he meets not Charles Rankin, the alias of Franz Kindler, but Mary Longstreet, played by Loretta Young who informs Meinke she is to marry Charles at 6p.m. that evening and asks him to wait. Whereupon he leaves and is never seen again. In a long and convuluted dramatic movie Charles Rankin eventually reveals himself first to Mr. Wilson(Edward G. Robinson)who finally convinces the brother of Mary and eventually her father and finally everyone else in the town leading to a scene in the clock tower at the end with the three big