Running, running... When we hear why Robert Ryan is pursuing Van Heflin, our loyalties are switched. But when Heflin gets picked up by Mary Astor (didn't recognise her at all) in a bar, and she introduces him to Taylor Holmes and brutish Barry Kroeger, things get a lot worse. Beautifully done ending in railway station.
With Janet Leigh and Phyllis Thaxter.
Photographed by Robert Surtees, music by Bronislau Kaper.
Is it a noir? Well it doesn't have the great language of Double Indemnity nor a femme fatale (Astor is more of a run down barfly who gets 'kicks'), but... yes, definitely. And in that it's one of those ones that totally undermines what seems to be the typical happy American family it's definitely subversive, and it also has that angle about how the war is still seeping into post-war lives.
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