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John (John Ireland) and Pam Allen (Susan Stephen) have just moved into
a new house with their son Tommy (Timothy Beaton), and John is up for
promotion at the magazine he works at ... when they learned someone is
curiously interested into where they live and the like, and time and
again, Pam catches this someone observing the house from a distance. A few
days later, she literally bumps into this man in the supermarket ... and
is scared shitless: It's Homer Trent (Cyril Shaps), the very man who raped
her when she was 14 and an orphanage. He was later jailed for it mind you,
but is apparently out again. And now he's dedicated to stalking her,
apparently ... John makes the police look into the matter, but they can
do nothing about it because since his release, Trent has done no wrong,
has every right to be in the city, and John and Pam can't even
conclusively prove he's stalking Pam. Then they get a call from Tommy's
school that the boy is missing, and they're worried out of their minds,
call the police and everything ... until the boy is brought home by the
school's prinicpal. Apparently the call about Tommy missing was fake. John's
career meanwhile goes downhill, because of his private problems he fucked
up his promotion, and now he has to work late to even keep his job. And
late one night, one of John's colleagues (Kevin Stoney), actually the man
who was promoted instead of him, dies because the elevator has crashed ten
floors down, as the cables have been tampered with. John is convinced
Trent did it, targeting him and not his colleague, but the police isn't
even sure it wasn't John himself, killing nasty competition. Anyways,
this night when returning home, John and Pam have to notice their
phonelines are cut and their car's tyres are slashed - so that can mean
pretty much only one thing: Trent is ready to strike ... which he does,
catching Pam alone in the kitchen. Pam however manages to burn his face
with boiling water, then John beats the living shit out of him and Trent
makes a hasty escape - upon which John goes over to the neighbours to call
the police. But Trent returns and tries to rape Pam - but little Tommy has
found his father's gun, and now threatens to shoot Trent. Of course, he
has no idea how to handle a gun, but when Trent tries to take it from him,
it goes off anyhow, and when Trent falls down some stairs right
afterwards, this is ultimately his end ... With a running time
of roughly more than an hour, Return of a Stranger is a great
little suspense thriller that's based on a fascinating effective script
and is very tightly paced, that gets the most of seemingly trivial
situations by simply adding menace to the proceedings via the stranger's
back (his face is only seen in the finale) rather than betting on
sensationalist shocks ... and that the film features a great cast of
course doesn't hurt one bit either. Recommended.
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