Not as a Stranger

Name: Not as a Stranger
Genre: Drama, Romance, Film-Noir
Released: July 1, 1955
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Harry Morgan

1955

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United Artists | Release Date: July 1, 1955 | Not Rated

Starring: Broderick Crawford, Charles Bickford, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Grahame, Harry Morgan, Jesse White, Lon Chaney Jr., Myron McCormick, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Mitchum

Summary: An ego-driven, aspiring physician, intolerant of the weaknesses of others, especially those closest to him, comes to grips with his own imperfections.

Director: Stanley Kramer

Genre(s): Drama, Romance, Film-Noir

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 135 min

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Nathan Rabin

Not As A Stranger taps into the raging fury and animal sexuality lurking underneath Mitchum’s quiet-storm demeanor; the film’s redemptive arc requires him to realize what he has in a good, wholesome woman like de Havilland, but Mitchum’s bedroom eyes and leering swagger suggest that he really belongs to a femme fatale like Grahame, who undoubtedly tumbled out of the womb clutching a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other. Read full review

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The exceptional cast helps to while away the platitudes and pieties, provided you can accept the likes of Mitchum, Sinatra and Marvin as somewhat wrinkly students. Read full review

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Though some scenes come off fairly well, Mitchum is poker-faced from start to finish. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The book featured lots of sexy scenes, but the film adaptation is, at best, cool and dispassionate. Mitchum's facial expressions seem to fall into two categories: sullen and sour. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

It is loaded with hospital lore, coldly realistic and compelling, but also it is creeping with ponderous characters. With so much dissecting in his picture—and so much of it being good—it is too bad that Mr. Kramer couldn't have done a little on his characters. Read full review

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