Character profile

Mr. Wilson

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Mr. Wilson is an investigator for the United Nations War Crimes Commission in The Stranger. He follows a former Nazi associate to a small Connecticut town in hopes of identifying the fugitive Franz Kindler, then uses the suspect's beliefs and obsession with clocks to expose him.

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“Well, who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew?”

— Mr. Wilson《The Stranger》

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Movie · 1946

The Stranger

The Stranger is a 1946 American thriller film noir directed and co-written by Orson Welles, starring himself along with Edward G. Robinson and Loretta Young. Welles's third completed feature film as director and his first film noir, it centers on war crimes investigator Wilson tracking high-ranking Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler to a Connecticut town.

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