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26 September 1949 (Sweden)
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Wanted by two women! One for Love! One for Murder!
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In San Francisco, the successful self-made businessman Walter Williams has just bought three factories...
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Great unknown classic
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Brian Donlevy | ... | Walter Williams |
 | Ella Raines | ... | Marsha Peters |
 | Charles Coburn | ... | Lt. Quincy |
| Helen Walker | ... | Irene Williams |
| Anna May Wong | ... | Su Lin |
| Robert Warwick | ... | Capt. Callahan |
| Clarence Kolb | ... | Darcy |
| Art Baker | ... | Defense Attorney |
| William Wright | ... | Prosecutor |
 | Mae Marsh | ... | Mrs. King |
| Sheilah Graham | ... | Herself |
| Tony Barrett | ... | Jim Torrence |
| Philip Ahn | ... | Ah Sing |
| Glen Vernon | ... | Ed (as Glenn Vernon) |
| Linda Leighton | ... | Telephone Operator |
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111 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
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Continuity: Marsha's mother, is identified in dialogue by the name Mrs. King. Yet in the closing credits, she is identified as Mrs. Peters.
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[First lines] Impact, the force with which two lives come together. Sometimes for good, sometimes for evil.
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It' Can't Be
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Donlevy is a cuckolded husband whose wife and lover plan to kill him. Things go wrong and it is the wife's lover who dies in a fiery wreck, allowing Donlevy to assume a new identity as the mechanic for a garage owner who looks like a supermodel. After recovering from his temporary amnesia, he plans to watch his wife "get what she deserves" by waiting to come out until after she's in jail for murder (whose? I can't remember! But it all makes sense in the movie, believe me, it's just very twisted!). When he finally does come out, all big heart, she accuses HIM of her lover's murder! Good suspense, character acting, photography, with a lively pace. It's hard to figure out how talking animal movie specialist Lubin managed to pull this one off so well, but it will send me looking for other movies along this same vein by the director.