Movie: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Synopsis: An aspiring newspaper reporter, Michael Ward, is the key witness in a murder trial and his testimony helps convict Joe Briggs on mostly circumstantial evidence. As he begins to second guess what he saw, his neighbor is murdered, and the police make him the primary suspect for both murders. His only hope is his girlfriend, Jane, who needs to find a mysterious stranger that may be connected to the crimes. Who's in it? The movie stars John McGuire , Margaret Tallichet , Peter Lorre , Charles Halton and Elisha Cook, Jr. Review: I'm not a huge film noir fan and, under normal circumstances, might have passed this movie up. However, I do like Peter Lorre and, after seeing he was in this film, decided to give it a try. Unfortunately, while the premise was an interesting one, I just didn't enjoy this film as much as I was hoping I would. My biggest problem with this movie was, for a film that is only about an hour in length, there sure was an awful lot of filler. This i...