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The Stranger SFF_Gift_Guide And she would vanish withoutThe Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary (Loretta Young). One afternoon, an extremely nervous German gentleman named Meineke (Konstantin Shayne) arrives in town. Professor Rankin seems disturbed but not unduly so by Meineke's presence. He invites the stranger for a walk