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Official with the United States War Crimes Commission (Edward G. Robinson) tracks high-level Nazi to small Connecticut town and finds Charles Rankin (Orson Welles), a prep school teacher and clock aficionado about to be married to the daughter (Loretta Young) of a Supreme Court Justice. Dark, well-written drama made memorable by Welles' odd performance -- he plays Rankin as reserved and calculating to the point of abstraction -- and a spectacular climax on the top of a clock tower.
Official with the United States War Crimes Commission (Edward G. Robinson) tracks high-level Nazi to small Connecticut town and finds Charles Rankin (Orson Welles), a prep school teacher and clock aficionado about to be married to the daughter (Loretta Young) of a Supreme Court Justice. Dark, well-written drama made memorable by Welles' odd performance -- he plays Rankin as reserved and calculating to the point of abstraction -- and a spectacular climax on the top of a clock tower.