Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 31 min.

Directed by: Otto Preminger

Release Date: December 11, 1952

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DVD Release Date: January 23, 2007

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  • January 27, 2008
    Oh, I dug this. Preminger delivers solid Beverly Hills noir with a dollop of Freudian melodrama. Mitchum is great as a super cynical "I'm wise to you" pragmatist who still winds up taking the fall for the nutty dame. Nutty dames...
  • January 25, 2008
    A good noir with some really good scenes but overall it does not quite deserves its reputation as on of the genre's best. True enough, Mitchum is great in it and his character has the nice habit to destroy any kind of romanticism as soon as it appears. Other than that I am sure c...( read more)inema historians will remark the rather dark side of society portrayed here (economic success just brings boredom, the judicial system is idiotic, relatives deserve to be killed, love is not of any importance). I know it is quite daring for 1952, but nowadays it looks middle and somewhat out of fashion. Some scenes deserves to be remembered though, specially the trial and the über-strange wedding.
  • November 11, 2008
    Good Lord, the ending simply RUINED this otherwise fine movie. The wedding-in-hospital-jail scene was quite the hoot, tho!
  • October 4, 2008
    Fantastic, I saw this in conjunction wtih Hitchcocks "Suspicion" and I thought this was much better. Up until the first car 'fall it seemed like an okay film, but after i was riveted.
    Loved the ending, not what you expect, reminds me of Vertigo in a way,
    Jeans Simmons was excel...( read more)lent

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