Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides the UK on BBC One, it was watched by a total of 5.4 million viewers, making it the third-most watched program that night, according to overnight figures. "On Stranger Tides" earned $241.1 million in the North America and $804.6 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $1.045 billion. It is the 23rd highest-grossing film worldwide, the third-highest-grossing 2011 film, the second-most successful installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, the eleventh-highest-grossing Disney feature and the third highest-grossing fourth film in a franchise (behind "Jurassic World" and ""). On its worldwide opening weekend, it grossed $350.6 million, surpassing
The Stranger (1946 film) "The Stranger" as Movie of the Week in its issue dated June 3, 1946. On its release, "The Stranger" was unfavorably compared to Alfred Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943). "One reason for the similarities is the recutting, supervised by Ernest Nims," wrote film historian Bret Wood. "By removing the Latin American sequence and many of the political elements (such as the clock/fascist analogy),"The Stranger" is transformed from a socially relevant drama to a small town murder story, with the villain more a psychopath than a political fugitive. Nims cut the film to play like a conventional thriller with little