Three Strangers is a 1946 American film noir crime drama directed by Jean Negulesco and starring Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Peter Lorre, and featuring Joan Lorring and Alan Napier.

Shackleford would use the money to try to win her estranged husband back, Arbutny to smooth the way for his selection to the prestigious Barrister's Club, and Johnny to buy a bar and live in it.

When a second witness is discredited, Fallon confesses to the robbery but blames the murder on West and the third man involved, Timothy "Gabby" Delaney.

Arbutny has been speculating in stocks with money from the trust fund of Lady Rhea Belladon, an eccentric widow who believes she can talk with her dead husband.

David Shackleford arrives, intending to shoot his estranged wife for driving Janet away from him, but leaves, shaken, upon discovering that she is already dead.

At one point, the story was considered for a sequel of sorts to The Maltese Falcon, and Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet and Mary Astor were to star.

For the third starring role, that of "Johnny West," Errol Flynn, David Niven, Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and Robert Montgomery were considered.

[citation needed] John Huston was inspired to write the story by a wooden figure he bought in an antique shop while working in London.

In its 1946 review, Variety wrote: Greenstreet overplays to some extent as the attorney who has raided a trust fund, but he still does a good job.

Never so far away from reason that it is wholly incredible but obviously manufactured fiction, it makes a tolerably tantalizing show, reaching some points of fascination in a few of its critical scenes.