Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

gridoon2018 "Stranger On The Third Floor" is an unknown gem. The stunning nightmare sequence alone is enough to lift it far above a routine mystery programmer (even more impressive when you consider that this was Boris Ingster's directorial debut!). The little-known leads, John McGuire and the very beautiful Margaret Tallichet, do very good jobs, and Peter Lorre is supremely creepy, even if he only speaks in the final 5 minutes of the film (the first time he speaks is another ingenious scene - we don't see him, but we recognize his voice). Of course the film could have been even darker - if (SPOILER!) McGuire really had killed those two people and Lorre was the personification of his conscience or something - but that would have been a different movie, or perhaps an episode of "The Twilight Zone". *** out of 4.

Claudio Carvalho The reporter Michael 'Mike' Ward (John McGuire) is promoted in the newspaper when he becomes the key witness of the murder trial of Joe Briggs (Elisha Cook Jr.), a young man that he had seen threatening the victim Nick in his coffee shop and then leaving the place with Nick with sliced neck. Joe swears innocence and despite the circumstantial evidence, he is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. Mike's fiancée Jane (Margaret Tallichet) feels uncomfortable with the sentence and believes that Joe might be innocent. Mike loses his confidence and feels remorse for his testimony accusing Joe. One night, Mike brings Jane to his room and his nosy neighbor Albert Meng (Charles Halton) brings the landlord that expels Jane from the boarding house. Mike threatens Meng and later he sees a stranger with bulging eyes (Peter Lorre) on his floor that runs away from him. He has a weird nightmare and when he wakes up, he finds that Meng is murdered with sliced neck similar to Nick. Mike calls the police and is arrested as prime suspect of both murders. Jane seeks out the stranger on the streets to save her fiancé. "Stranger on the Third Floor" is considered the first film-noir of the cinema history. The story is engaging, supported by magnificent cinematography, and the sequence of Mike's nightmare is fantastic. Peter Lorre is creepy and the conclusion is naive on the present days. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "O Homem dos Olhos Esbugalhados" ("The Man with Bulging Eyes")

jrmontalvo3 Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third Floor is an incredible drama film that has you always trying to question and figure out who might be the killer, keeping you interested in the movie. The film takes place with a newlywed couple Michael and Jade who are grabbing breakfast before the trial of Joe Briggs. At the end of Joe's trial, the movie starts building in suspense by having Michael second guessing weather Joe's trial was innocent or guilty, later throughout the night Michael starts to have nightmares that he is actually in Joe's place. Once Michael finds himself seeing an unfamiliar face walking out of a neighbor's house, they find another person has been murdered, this time instead of Joe becoming blamed for the crimes in the murder; it is place in Michael's hands. The cops think that Michael is the man behind this murder accusing him of killing the innocent. Finally, the true killer is found, and Michael and Joe will both be allowed to be released from going to jail for crimes in which neither one of the two committed. This movie brings in a lot of suspense and has the viewer trying to spot which person might actually be telling the truth and who might have actually been the killer, until you find out the killer was actually a total stranger, which unlike most movie's where it's either of the two, this movie brought in a whole separate character who wasn't even a suspect for being the murderer.

wadih_ws Boris Ingster's Stranger on the Third floor is a powerful drama that keeps you thinking on who is the killer in this remarkable film. The start of the film is with newly engaged couple of Michael and Jane are getting breakfast at a diner before the trial of Joe Briggs that Michael is in. This movie creates suspense when after the trial Michael is second-guessing himself whether Joe is truly guilty or not, and this bothers him all night. He keeps thinking what if he was in Joe's place, and starts getting nightmares. He then see's an unfamiliar face walk out of his nosy neighbor's place and finds that his neighbor is dead and goes on another twist because now the police thinks Michael is the killer since he discovered both of the murders. Shows all of what he thinks will happen and finally Jane finds the murderer and goes on the where both Joe and Michael are set free because the murderer was found and apprehended. This film is a hard to figure out until you figure out who is the stranger then, everything becomes predictable. The one thing that lowered the film in my view was how the murderer admits to the cops that he's the murderer and it just kept me wondering why the director would have that since I doubt anyone would admit to a crime, especially one this bold. This film could have been better, but the predictability as well as the title of the film gives the outcome of the film away. A lot of adjustments need to be made to make this film a huge success, because most of the movie's problems are predictability as well as cheesy lines and so on. Overall this film was entertaining a bit, but the fact that I could tell what happens next ruined the fun of figuring it out.