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The Stranger (1946) has fallen out of copyright and into the public domain, which means that any cheapjack DVD distributor, or any TV station needing cheap programming, can offer this film without paying for the rights. Few will take the trouble to find a good print or spend money improving the one they have.

Some copies are better than others. Shop around.

The MGM-HD channel has a restored print with excellent picture and sound, presented in the conventional 4-by-6 format, instead of being stretched or blown-up to fit the widescreen HDTV 16-by-9 frame.

A swastika. He thinks better of it and begins to disguise the drawing immediately after creating it.

Double Indemnity (1944). Robinson's dinner sticks going halfway down. Why, he asks, would Mr. Dietrichson have failed to file for his accident insurance when he had just broken his leg?

The Stranger (1946). Robinson gets up in the middle of the night to wonder who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German because he was a Jew.