Directed by:
Fritz LangScreenplay:
Nunnally JohnsonCinematography:
Milton R. KrasnerCast:
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Thomas E. Jackson, Dorothy Peterson, Arthur Loft, Robert Blake, Alec Craig (more)VOD (1)
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In this tense melodrama, a meek college professor gets mixed up in murder and blackmail. After his wife and kids leave for vacation in Maine, Professor Richard Wanley remains behind on his own. En route to his club, he's riveted by a painting he sees in a store window. It's a portrait of a beautiful woman, and he's shocked when he realizes that the picture's model--Alice Reed--is standing right next to him. Wanley innocently goes to Reed's apartment to look at other pieces of art when an angry man breaks in. After accusing Alice of cheating on him, the stranger attempts to harm the professor. But Wanley defends himself by stabbing his attacker, who, it turns out, is a famous financial promoter. The professor and the model then cover up the crime by dumping the body in the woods. The police eventually do find out about the death, and they start an investigation; meanwhile, the professor tries desperately to figure out a way out of this mess. Then it turns out that someone else knows what happens...and intends to blackmail Wanley and Reed. (official distributor synopsis)
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