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The Intimate Stranger (1956)

The Intimate Stranger poster
Directed by
Joseph Losey
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A film director who was blacklisted in Hollywood tries to start over in England. A mysterious woman from his past reappears and threatens his new life.

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What happens

The Intimate Stranger (released in the United States as Finger of Guilt) is a 1956 British drama film noir directed by Joseph Losey from a screenplay by Howard Koch, and starring Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings and Roger Livesey. It is inspired by Losey and Koch's real-life experiences in the Hollywood blacklist, and follows a blacklisted filmmaker (Basehart) trying to rebuild his life in England. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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