Three Strangers
Three Strangers

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According to a legend, if three strangers gather before an idol of Kwan Yin (the Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny) on the night of the Chinese New Year and make a common wish, Kwan Yin will open her eyes and her heart and grant the wish. In London 1938 on the Chinese New Year, Crystal Shackleford has such an idol and decides to put the legend to the test. She picks two random strangers off the street, and puts the proposition to them. They decide that an ideal wish woul... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Three Strangers:

Sydney Greenstreet
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Peter Lorre
Joan Lorring
Robert Shayne
Marjorie Riordan

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According to a legend, if three strangers gather before an idol of Kwan Yin (the Chinese goddess of fortune and destiny) on the night of the Chinese New Year and make a common wish, Kwan Yin will open her eyes and her heart and grant the wish. In London 1938 on the Chinese New Year, Crystal Shackleford has such an idol and decides to put the legend to the test. She picks two random strangers off the street, and puts the proposition to them. They decide that an ideal wish would be for a sweepstakes ticket they buy equal shares in to be a winner. After all, everyone needs money and a pot is very easy to divide equally, right?

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzThe intricately plotted messy film becomes enjoyable mainly because of the spirited performances.
User Review - 10/10 by Joe APossibly Peter Lorre's best role. Greenstreat brilliant as always. Excellent, underrated film noir.
User Review - 8/10 by Jon CInteresting Lorre/Greenstreet/Huston film Long out of circulation, this 1946 vehicle by veteran Hollywood director Jean Negulesco (who had directed Lorre and Greenstreet previously in The Mask of Demetrios and would go on to make Daddy Long Legs, Three Coins in the Fountain, and How to Marry a Millionaire) was finally released on Region 1 DVD in 2012. The film has an interesting history. The original was intended to be a sequel to John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, using a screenplay Huston had written but hadn't gotten produced, with Greenstreet and Lorre reprising their roles as Casper Gutman and Joel Cairo in a new adventure, this time centered around a mysterious Chinese idol rather than a bird statuette. But it turned out that Warner's didn't have and couldn't get permission to re-use the same character names, so the project was turned into a film with no reference to The Maltese Falcon, still using Huston's screenplay. The result, the story of three strangers in 1938 London who pray to the idol for luck, and how the answer to their prayer affects their interweaving relationships, is something of a neglected classic, with Greenstreet and Lorre doing some of their best acting, and Huston's unusual and fascinating screenplay foreshadowing the theme of how greed affects human relationships which was to feature in many of Huston's own subsequent films like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Beat the Devil, and The Asphalt Jungle. Recommended with four stars as an entertaining and interesting piece of cinema which deserves to be better known; if you are a real fan of Lorre or Greenstreet or a serious student of Huston's work, consider it a five star must see. The Warner Archive DVD print quality is very good.
User Review - 8/10 by Orlok Wgood stuff great cast dark and moody I liked it
User Review - 6/10 by Michael HPeter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet are always worth a look. It's particularly enjoyable watching Lorre play against type as a sympathetic leading man. It's no masterpiece; the movie does not, by any means, maintain a commanding grip on the audience, but the trio of lead actors keep things lively and interesting while Lorre's character amiably and almost accidentally comes through relatively unscathed, and somewhat better off without getting the big payoff. Plus, there's a young Alan Napier (later Alfred on the Batman television show) as Geraldine Fitzgerald's unfortunate husband.
User Review - 6/10 by William Mnot phenomenal, interesting how the screenplay was co written by JOHN HUSTON, interesting film overall, ending with its heavily ironic statement sorta reminded me of like an extended episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS or THE TWILIGHT ZONE, i liked it overall

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