Stranger on the Third Floor

Cub reporter Michael (John McGuire), troubled over his testimony, which led to a conviction in a murder near his apartment, has a second encounter with Peter Lorre (title character), in the celebrated RKO early Film Noir, The Stranger On The Third Floor, 1940.

The RKO second-feature often considered the first Film Noir takes a dark turn, as we begin the internal monologue of Michael (John McGuire), whose testimony just clinched a maybe-unjust murder conviction, and he meets the title character (Peter Lorre) in Stranger On The Third Floor, 1940.

Margaret Tallichet (best known in Hollywood as Mrs. William Wyler, after her retirement from the screen in 1941) as Jane, has an innocent visit with boyfriend Michael (John McGuire), opening the RKO programmer often cited as the first Film Noir, Stranger On The Third Floor, 1940.