Mystery / Film-Noir
USA,
1948, 93 min
Directed by:
S. Sylvan SimonScreenplay:
Roy HugginsCinematography:
Charles Lawton Jr.Composer:
George DuningCast:
Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens, Glenda Farrell, Steven Geray, Lynn Merrick, John Ireland, Donald Curtis, Eduardo Ciannelli (more)Plots(1)
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor. The latter is killed before he can talk, but, with the help of a showgirl, the detective learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girl friend to enter college after she had stolen $40,000 from the night club where she worked. The detective eventually learns that the husband had killed his wife when he discovered her past in order to avoid a scandal, and had hired the detective to try and frame him for the killing. (official distributor synopsis)
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