The Intimate Stranger (1956 film)

Reggie Wilson's Hollywood career as a film editor ended after he had an affair with his boss's wife. He then moved to England, became successful and married the daughter of a producer. They are both working on a new film Eclipse. His new life is threatened when he starts receiving intimate letters from a woman. She reminds him of a relationship they had some time ago but he genuinely has no knowledge of it . Has he a sick mind or is he the victim of an evil scheme?

• Richard Basehart - Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson
• Mary Murphy - Evelyn Stewart
• Constance Cummings - Kay Wallace
• Roger Livesey - Ben Case
• Faith Brook - Lesley Wilson
• Mervyn Johns - Ernest Chaple
• Vernon Greeves - George Mearns
• André Mikhelson - Steve Vadney
• David Lodge - Police Sergeant Brown
• Basil Dignam - Dr Gray
• Grace Denbigh Russell - Mrs Lynton
• Joseph Losey - Director
• Garfield Morgan - Waiter
• Marianne Stone - Miss Cedrick, the Secretary
• Peter Veness - Policeman
• Frederic Steger - Barman

Losey was blacklisted in the United States at the time when he made the film. Along with a number of other American directors and screenwriters, he moved to Britain and began making films, disguising his real identity behind an alias. The screenplay was written by Howard Koch who had also been blacklisted, and wrote under the name Peter Howard. The film was made at Shepperton Studios.

Losey has a small cameo part in the film, playing a film director.

It was called With all My Heart and partly made by Todon Productions. FIlming started November 1955.[3]

Allmovie wrote "Perhaps Koch and his director Joseph Losey...were too drawn in to the plot's semi-metaphorical take on blacklisting to see that the scenes are not properly focused, the dialogue lacks enough sparkle and that the string of coincidences causes some plausibility problems. Fortunately, Finger is helped immensely by the on-target performance of leading man Richard Basehart and the beautifully wicked one of Mary Murphy, as well as the solid turn from Constance Cummings";[2] Derek Winnert wrote "It is one of the least well known of all Losey’s films, but then it is arguably also one of the least too, though far from negligible";[4] and Dennis Schwartz noted a "tightly scripted crime thriller...The conclusion comes with a pat resolution, but by that time I was engrossed in the improbable story and too much impressed with the fine acting to care that much if I was being manipulated."[5]

• The Intimate Stranger at IMDb
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