LFS & Stranger article

[Wellesnet]

David Lehman over at "The American Scholar" published an examination today of two Orson Welles efforts from the late 1940s: THE STRANGER and THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI.
(Thanks to Richard Deming for alerting us to this piece.)

Strangers and Mirrors
Orson Welles’s The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
https://theamericanscholar.org/stranger ... s-5gTOSmUn

[tonyw]

Rankin's line about Karl Marx not being a German but a Jew also comes from MEIN KAMPF that I'm currently reading. The Robin character must have read it since he is dedicated to knowing his enemy.