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Talk About a Stranger is a 1952 American film noir directed by David Bradley and starring George Murphy, Nancy Davis and Billy Gray. It was shot by noted cinematographer John Alton, A.S.C. and was based on Charlotte Armstrong's short story "The Enemy".
Talk About a Stranger: Directed by David Bradley. With George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray, Lewis Stone. In an idyllic setting, a likable but dangerously volatile twelve-year-old boy tries to settle a score with his disagreeable, mysterious neighbor.
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- Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
- David Bradley
- 1952-04-18
Talk About a Stranger was the first theatrical film directed by David Bradley. His first film was Peer Gynt (1941), a highly regarded student film made while Bradley and the film's star, Charlton Heston, were students at Northwestern University (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50).
- David Bradley, Bert Glazer
- George Murphy
When his dog dies, apparently from being poisoned, the young son of the owner of a small orange orchard in California immediately suspects an unfriendly, mysterious stranger who has just moved into the area, who recently had a quarrel with the boy's father.
Talk About a Stranger is a 1952 American film noir directed by David Bradley and starring George Murphy, Nancy Davis and Billy Gray. It was shot by noted cinematographer John Alton, A.S.C. and was based on Charlotte Armstrong's short story "The Enemy".
A California ranch couple's (George Murphy, Nancy Davis) son (Billy Gray) thinks his dog has been poisoned by a shady stranger.
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- Dennis Schwartz
- Mystery & Thriller
- David Bradley
This unjustly overlooked B-picture calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird and Night of the Hunter in the way that it details a dark coming-of-age story in which a boy (Billy Gray) believes that a new immigrant in town (Kurt Kaszner) has killed his dog.
