From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Talk About a Stranger (1952)   
      
   Red scare allegory about an off-putting man named Matlock who moves into   
   the home no one has seen and drives a car that is registered to someone   
   else. It's Kurt Kasznar, not yet in the Land of the Giants. He wants   
   nothing to do with anyone and doesn't seem to be harvesting his oranges.   
      
   The little boy Robert Jr (Billy Gray, Bud on Father Knows Best) won't   
   leave him alone and keeps breaking things accidentally. He's adopted by   
   an incredibly well trained stray dog, and works for Wardlow (Lewis Stone),   
   the local newspaper publisher.   
      
   One day, he has to leave his dog to go into town, and his parents   
   (George Murphy and Nancy Davis, who just married Ronald Reagan) promise   
   to watch the dog, who then escapes to find his master. Hours later, the   
   boy finds the dog dead, poisoned, on Matlock's grounds. Matlock denies   
   doing it but the boy's father doesn't believe him and the boy makes   
   accusastions all over town to anyone who will listen.   
      
   TCM host Eddie Muller called it "kid noir".   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)