“…as distinctively Wellesian as Citizen Kane, and packing nearly as many technical wonders.”—Slant
Charles Rankin (director Orson Welles) has the perfect life: a tenured and esteemed faculty position in a small Connecticut college town; a beautiful new wife, Mary (Loretta Young); and a charming home. Enter Mr. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a detective on the hunt for Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler. Wilson’s investigation threatens to reveal the dark secrets lurking beneath the town’s idyllic surface, and within Rankin’s own turbulent heart. Cinematography by Russell Metty (Touch of Evil).