Drei Fremde

Originaltitel: Three Strangers

1946
Approved
1 Std. 32 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,9/10

2645

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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1 Video

15 Fotos

Film Noir Crime Drama Thriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThree strangers, each dealing with a serious problem, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.Three strangers, each dealing with a serious problem, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.Three strangers, each dealing with a serious problem, share a sweepstakes ticket which they wished upon together before a Chinese idol.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,9/10

2645

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Wissenswertes
According to Robert Osborne of TCM, this film was at one point intended to be a sequel to Die Spur des Falken (1941). Following the success of that film, Warner Bros. wanted to make a sequel. "Falcon" writer/director John Huston said he'd previously written an un-filmed script for Warner Bros. that would be appropriate and would only require the character names to be changed to the Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Mary Astor characters. However, Warner Bros. discovered they did not own the rights to the characters except for their appearance in "The Maltese Falcon."

Patzer
When David is in Crystal's apartment - she kisses him, he turns away, and she burns the back of his right hand with her cigarette. He yanks it away and yells in pain while holding it, yet later that day when he's sitting at a table with his girlfriend Janet, the back of his right hand can briefly be seen a few times and there is no burn or mark of any kind on it at all.

Zitate
Johnny West: Don't ever get mixed up with a Chinese goddess. That's the worst thing that can happen, the very worst.

Alternative Versionen
Also available in a computer colorized version.

Verbindungen
Featured in Frances Farmer Presents: Three Strangers (1959)

Soundtracks
Waltz No. 15 in A-flat major Op. 39
(uncredited)
Music by Johannes Brahms
Played on the piano by Johnny

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Rezension

Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

One of the oddest and most fascinating movies of the 1940s

Three Strangers is not a typical Hollywood film. Dark and philosophical, it introduces the viewer to three people, strangers to one another, and then follows their sad, desperate lives. While one reviewer on this site says it's a shame they don't make movies like this anymore, the fact is, they almost never made movies like this back then. This is far less neat and more philosophical than your typical 40s flick, a movie about strange twists of fate and the ways in which people fail to take responsibility for their actions.

The cast is excellent, with Peter Lorre particularly impressive in one of the best performances of his career as an alcoholic who thinks too much and does too little. I was also quite taken by Joan Lorring's touchingly vulnerable performance as a girl in with the wrong crowd.

Admittedly the ending ties things up in a neat little bow, yet for the most part this movie is far closer in spirit to the indie movies of the 1990s than to the film noirs of the 1940s it could be mistaken for.