In an idyllic setting, a likable but dangerously volatile twelve-year-old boy tries to settle a score with his disagreeable, mysterious neighbor.In an idyllic setting, a likable but dangerously volatile twelve-year-old boy tries to settle a score with his disagreeable, mysterious neighbor.In an idyllic setting, a likable but dangerously volatile twelve-year-old boy tries to settle a score with his disagreeable, mysterious neighbor.
Nancy Reagan
- Marge Fontaine
- (as Nancy Davis)
Stanley Andrews
- Mr. Wetzell - Orange Grower
- (uncredited)
Margaret Bert
- Woman
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Ed Cassidy
- Soloway
- (uncredited)
Wayne A. Farlow
- Twin Boy
- (uncredited)
Virginia Farmer
- Mrs. Campbell
- (uncredited)
Kathleen Freeman
- Rosa - Grocery Clerk
- (uncredited)
Jon Gardner
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Donald Gordon
- Boy
- (uncredited)
Harry Hines
- Talmadge
- (uncredited)
Teddy Infuhr
- Gregory - Boy in San Sala
- (uncredited)
Charles La Torre
- Batastini - Grocer
- (uncredited)
Harry Lauter
- Clarence the Bookkeeper
- (uncredited)
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- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaNear the beginning of the film, Bright's disease is mentioned. This is the original medical term for the kidney disease now known as nephritis, first described by the English physician Richard Bright in 1827.
- GoofsThe boy Robert Jr. talks to in San Sala says Dr. Mahler went missing and in October and that it was now January. However, at the end of the film, Camille speaks as if her early November birthday was very recent (remarking that Robert didn't get her a present).
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The Worst Impulses In Your Mind
Kurt Kaszner who has certainly played his share of villains on the screen has come to settle down in a small California town in the citrus fruit growing area. He's surly, bad tempered, and scares off anyone trying remotely to be friendly to him. Especially young Billy Gray who has a paper route that Kaszner is on. Even Gray's father George Murphy can't get any kind of smile out of him.
In a small town, a fellow like Kaszner is bound to raise eyebrows, but no one outrightly accuses him of anything until a dog that young Mr. Gray has adopted is poisoned.
Of course there's a lot more to the story, but I won't spoil anything by going farther. Talk About A Stranger can be deadly if you don't know the facts and let the worst impulses in your mind start taking control.
Talk About A Stranger is an unpretentious film from MGM's B picture unit which has a simple message and speaks it plainly. Nancy Davis is in this as Gray's mother and Lewis Stone is in this as well in one of his last films.
The film has a nice moral lessons about jumping to conclusions before all the facts are in.
In a small town, a fellow like Kaszner is bound to raise eyebrows, but no one outrightly accuses him of anything until a dog that young Mr. Gray has adopted is poisoned.
Of course there's a lot more to the story, but I won't spoil anything by going farther. Talk About A Stranger can be deadly if you don't know the facts and let the worst impulses in your mind start taking control.
Talk About A Stranger is an unpretentious film from MGM's B picture unit which has a simple message and speaks it plainly. Nancy Davis is in this as Gray's mother and Lewis Stone is in this as well in one of his last films.
The film has a nice moral lessons about jumping to conclusions before all the facts are in.
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- Dec 7, 2007
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- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- The Enemy
- Filming locations
- Morey Mansion, 190 Terracina Blvd, Redlands, California, USA(House of Dr. Paul Mahler, alias Matlock in the film.)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $481,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Talk About a Stranger (1952) officially released in Canada in English?
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