Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Movie: Stranger on the Third Floor

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• Stars: Alec Craig, Bess Wade, Betty Farrington, Bobby Barber, Broderick O’Farrell, Bruce Mitchell, Bud Osborne, Catherine Wallace, Charles Halton, Charles Judels, Charles Waldron, Cliff Clark, Dell Henderson, Don Kelly, Donald Kerr, Elisha Cook Jr, Emory Parnell, Ethel Griffies, Frank O’Connor, Frank Yaconelli, Gladden James, Greta Granstedt, Harry C Bradley, Henry Roquemore, Herb Vigran, Jack Cheatham, Jane Keckley, Jim Farley, John Harmon, John McGuire, Lee Bonnell, Lee Phelps, Lynton Brent, Margaret Tallichet, Max Hoffman Jr, Oscar O’Shea, Otto Hoffman, Paul McVey, Peter Lorre, Ralph Sanford, Ray Cooke, Robert Dudley, William Edmunds


• Release Date: August 16, 1940


• Run Time: 64 mins


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Rising reporter Michael Ward is a key witness in the murder trial of young Joe Briggs, who is convicted on circumstantial evidence while swearing innocence. Mike’s girl Jane believes in Joe and blames Mike, 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?

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) -