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Stranger on the Third Floor carve up the characters with more fateful force than Paul Schrader's similar gambit in "American Gigolo", and there's a dream sequence that has to be seen to be disbelieved." Another film reviewer, P.S. Harrison, wrote that "at [the film's] conclusion, one feels as if one had gone through a nightmare." Rotten Tomatoes reported an 83% approval rating with an average rating of 6.6/10 based on six professional reviews. Stranger on the Third Floor Stranger on the Third Floor is a 1940 RKO Radio Pictures film noir directed by Boris Ingster and starring Peter Lorre, John McGuire, and Margaret Tallichet, and