Twenty years before Visconti's adaptation, while Camus was still alive, the novelist had been approached with the idea of making The Stranger as a film by director Jean Renoir.
Complicated rights issues and Camus' daughter's apparent dislike for the film mean that it's had a very spotty history on home video. As of 2021, it's never been released on DVD or streaming, the only VHS tapes are long since out of print, and it's never been broadcast on television.
Visconti had considered Alain Delon, George Chakiris, and Tony Curtis for the title role.
Italian censorship visa # 49930 delivered on 23 September 1967.
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