Reel Archive

Actor

Edward G. Robinson

2 films · 1945–1946

Films in the archive featuring Edward G. Robinson, oldest first.

Scarlet Street

1945 · 103 min · Film Noir · United States

Directed by Fritz Lang

Starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her…

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The Stranger

1946 · 91 min · Film Noir · United States

Directed by Orson Welles

Starring Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles

Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.

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