Please remember this about Orson Welles: When he is bad he is still better than just about everyone else who has made a movie. And when he says he's bad, but really isn't, he's miles beyond most everyone else who has ever made a movie.

Welles never liked this, his third effort, a film about a former Nazi who moves to the bucolic burg of Harper, Connecticut. He was wrong.

Welles, as usual, enchants as the "teacher." Edward G. Robinson is always stalwart, especially, as here, when he plays a man with a mission to uncover the unknown. Loretta Young plays Welles' unsuspecting bride.

She is beautiful.
She is a good actress.
That is a good combo.

At the film's outset she is carefree in her friendly little town. Along the way, her life and personality unravel, as do the events in town.

Of course there is the requisite Welles screen composition -- shadows and light and camera angles most other directors would have never considered.

This little-seen film is worth tracking down.