Talk About a Stranger

Made during the height of the Joseph McCarthy era, this film is an allegory of the anti-communist fervor that commanded America's headlines at the time. Ironically, co-star and M-G-M contract player Nancy Reagan (née Davis) previously had her career derailed when she was erroneously branded a communist in one of the many red-baiting publications of the time. She sought dispensation from the then-president of the Screen Actors Guild, Ronald Reagan. This was how they met and they married a month before this film was released.

The boy Robert Jr. talks to in San Sala says Dr. Mahler went missing and in October and that it was now January. However, at the end of the film, Camille speaks as if her early November birthday was very recent (remarking that Robert didn't get her a present).

Featured in Noir Alley: Talk About a Stranger (2018)