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31 March 1945 (USA) morePlot:
Paul (James Lydon), a young man whose father was once lieutenant Governor of California before his untimely death... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
traditional old mystery with modern undercurrents moreCast
(Credited cast) | Jimmy Lydon | ... | Paul Cartwright (as James Lydon) |
| Warren William | ... | Brett Curtis |
| Sally Eilers | ... | Virginia Cartwright |
| Regis Toomey | ... | Dr. Martin Vincent |
| Charles Arnt | ... | Prof. Muhlbach |
| George Reed | ... | Benjamin (as George H. Reed) |
| Jayne Hazard | ... | Dorothy Cartwright |
| Jimmy Clark | ... | George Hanover |
| Mary McLeod | ... | Lydia |
| Pierre Watkin | ... | Dist. Atty. Wallace Armstrong |
| John Hamilton | ... | Bill Allen, Bank President |
| Sonia Sorel | ... | Charlotte Farber |
| Victor Potel | ... | Mac - Game Warden (as Vic Potel) |
| George Sherwood | ... | Langdon |
| Gene Roth | ... | Detective Sparks aka Sparky |
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I enjoyed this movie despite it's weaknesses, which at times it feels like a "B" movie technically. For example, at one point the main character is watching from the sanitarium window a car exiting the driveway but his head is not following the movement of the car properly which means it was a matte shot and it looks odd. Also the mother sometimes looks the same or younger than her daughter.
However, my interest was held from beginning to the end. I cared enough about the characters to want to see how they came out of it all.
The movie is in the category of a traditional mystery/drama, but the son's obsession with destroying his mother's fiancee gives the film an interesting suggestive undercurrent. Whether this was intentional, or just viewing it from a modern perspective, I can't say.