The Stranger is a 1946 American film starring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. Welles also directed this film set in Connecticut after World War II. The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.