Perhaps the overarching question about this movie is, “Who’s the stranger?” A man appears in a small New England college town ostensibly to hunt for antiques but with ulterior motives. At the same time a shady character arrives in town and mixes it up with a relatively recent member of the college faculty who is preparing for his wedding to a local debutante, the daughter of a Supreme Court justice. As he does so often, Orwell directs and stars in the movie. But directorial talent cannot overcome a transparent plot and an ending you can see coming a mile away in yet another story built on the prospect of post war insinuations.