The Stranger (1946) Poster

(1946)

Loretta Young: Mary Longstreet

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  • Mary Longstreet : Why wasn't it I... Franz Kindler? Kill me. Kill me, I want you to. I couldn't face life knowing what I've been to you and what I've done to Noah. But when you kill me, don't put your hands on me!

    [Picks up a fireplace poker] 

    Mary Longstreet : Here! Use this!

  • Mary Longstreet : Hello, father. Has anybody seen my brand new husband?

    Judge Longstreet : Don't tell me he's deserted you already.

  • Mary Longstreet : In Harper, there's nothing to be afraid of.

  • Professor Charles Rankin : Murder can be a chain, Mary, one link leading to another until it circles your neck. Red was digging at the grave of the man I killed. Yes, your little man.

    Mary Longstreet : You killed him?

    Professor Charles Rankin : With these hands. The same hands that have held you close to me.

  • Mary Longstreet : Oh Charles, I can't imagine you're advocating a Carthaginian peace.

    Professor Charles Rankin : Well, as a historian, I must remind you that the world hasn't had much trouble from Carthage in the past 2000 years.

  • Mr. Wilson : I'm on the Allied commission for the punishment of war criminals. Its my job to bring escaped Nazis to justice. It's that job that brought me to Harper.

    Mary Longstreet : Surely, you don't think - Mr. Wilson, I've never - I've never so much as even seen a Nazi.

    Mr. Wilson : Well, you might without you realizing it. They look like other people and - act like other people, when it's to their benefit.

  • Mary Longstreet : Why do you want me to look at these horrors?

    Mr. Wilson : All this you're seeing - it's all the product of one mind. The mind of a man named: Franz Kindler.

    Mary Longstreet : Franz Kindler?

    Mr. Wilson : Yes, he was the most brilliant of the younger minds from the Nazi party. It was Kindler who conceived the theory of genocide, mass depopulation of conquered countries, so, that, regardless of who won the war, Germany would emerge the strongest nation in Western Europe - biologically speaking. Unlike Goebbels, Himmler, and the rest of them, Kindler had a passion for anonymity. The newspapers carried no picture of him. Oh, no, and just before he disappeared he destroyed every evidence that might link him to his past - down to the last fingerprint. There's no clue to the identify of Franz Kindler; except one little thing. He has a hobby that almost amounts to a mania: clocks.

  • Mary Longstreet : [In bed]  Light me a cigarette, will you? I've never had a dream like that before.

  • Professor Charles Rankin : I put him in the cellar.

    Mary Longstreet : Oh, darling, no wonder he's howling. He's never been locked up in his entire life.

    Professor Charles Rankin : If he is to live with us, he must be trained. At night he will sleep in the cellar. In the daytime he'll be kept on a leash.

    Mary Longstreet : Charles, I don't believe in dogs being treated like prisoners. Red's my dog.

    Professor Charles Rankin : Please, Mary - I know what's best.

  • Professor Charles Rankin : Mary, in failing to speak, you've become part of the crime.

    Mary Longstreet : But, I'm already a part of it; because, I'm a part of you.

    [kiss] 

    Professor Charles Rankin : But, you shudder at the first touch of my hands as though it was the touch of death.

    Mary Longstreet : It - was nerves?

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