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24 August 1948 (USA) moreTagline:
A man can be as strong as steel...but somewhere there's a woman who'll break him! morePlot:
John Forbes is a family man who's tired of the 9 to 5 humdrum of his job an insurance company executive... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Powell protects Scott from Burr while Barr waits to get out of jail moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Dick Powell | ... | John Forbes | |
| Lizabeth Scott | ... | Mona Stevens | |
| Jane Wyatt | ... | Sue Forbes | |
| Raymond Burr | ... | MacDonald | |
| John Litel | ... | District Attorney | |
| Byron Barr | ... | Bill Smiley | |
| Jimmy Hunt | ... | Tommy Forbes | |
| Ann Doran | ... | Maggie | |
| Selmer Jackson | ... | Ed Brawley | |
| Margaret Wells | ... | Terry | |
| Dick Wessel | ... | Desk Sergeant |
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An insurance executive for a large company (Dick Powell) jokingly tells his wife (Jane Wyatt) as she's driving him to his office, that their lives have become a big routine. He's not really in a position to do anything about it, but when he takes over an embezzlement case from a private detective played by Raymond Burr, everything changes. Burr and Powell don't like each other, and their mutual animosity grows throughout the film when Powell gets involved with Lizabeth Scott who plays the fiancé of the jailed Byron Barr, who spent the embezzled money on gifts for her. Burr, an ex-cop, thinks he can have her, though she can't stand him, and he slips a wicked sucker punch on Powell one night while Powell is closing his garage door, warning him to stay away. Burr's part is the glue that holds much of the film together. He's insinuating, devious, but also kind of a coward. As good as Burr is, Powell seems even better. He was a born talent.