Stranger on the Third Floor

(1940)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 109 votes

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1940

Runtime: 64 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Boris Ingster

Cast: Петер Лорре, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Элиша Кук-младший, Charles Halton, Ethel Griffies, Cliff Clark, Oscar O'Shea, Alec Craig

Plot

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Rising reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing innocence. Michael's girl Jane believes in Joe and blames Michael, who (in a remarkable sequence) dreams he is himself convicted of murdering his nosy neighbor. Will his dream come true before Jane can find the real murderer?