THE STRANGER (1946) Nazi what he seems

Midway into THE STRANGER, Nazi hunter Wilson (Edward G. Robinson) bolts awake in the middle of the night realizing that "Who but a Nazi would deny that Karl Marx was a German... because he was a Jew? Wilson's a bit slow. We viewers have known since the movie started that the man who made the thinly veiled anti-Semetic remark that led to Wilson's epiphany, one Professor Charles Rankin (Orson Welles) is the slimy Nazi that Wilson's come all the way from Germany to Connecticut to find. We also know that thanks to his pipe-smoking pursuer's tenacity, Kindler will never make it to the Fourth Reich. This is a suspenseful, Wellsian noir with one heil of an ending!