‘A Stranger in Town’: Corruption in Plain Sight

A mysterious duck hunter on vacation notices that even small towns can engage in corruption.

(L–R) John Josephus Grant (Frank Morgan), Lucy Gilbert (Jean Rogers), and Bill Adams (Richard Carlson) team up, in “A Stranger in Town.” GJW+

NR | 1h 7m | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1943

People often view corruption as a big-city disease—brightly lit avenues, smoke-filled backrooms, envelopes sliding across polished desks. Small towns can pull the same dirty tricks but in another way. When a town has one courthouse, one town office, and one police department, influential people pull the levers and everything goes into play.