Story Line
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
“The Bogart suspense picture with the surprise finish!”
Top Cast
Humphrey Bogart
Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame
Laurel Gray
Frank Lovejoy
Brub Nicolai
Carl Benton Reid
Capt. Lochner
Art Smith
Mel Lippman
Jeff Donnell
Sylvia Nicolai
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Rating
7.6/ 10
Release Date
1950-05-17
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
ThrillerDramaRomanceMystery
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User Reviews (2)
John Chard
9/10
•2/17/2020Clinically excellent noir drama.
Plot Summary - First Paragraph
Screenwriter Dixon Steele is very talented, he also drinks too much and is prone to outbreaks of shocking violence. Thus the studios are reluctant to hire him, but through sheer d...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•3/26/2023Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame are on great form in this complex and intricate crime noir. He ("Dixon") is a down-on-his-luck writer who finds himself squarely in the eyes of the police, suspected of murder. Fortunately, and somewhat out of the b...