A lawyer's wife starts an affair with a mobster but is confronted by his other flame who ends up murdered and the adulterous wife is set up to take the blame for the killing.A lawyer's wife starts an affair with a mobster but is confronted by his other flame who ends up murdered and the adulterous wife is set up to take the blame for the killing.A lawyer's wife starts an affair with a mobster but is confronted by his other flame who ends up murdered and the adulterous wife is set up to take the blame for the killing.
Archie Twitchell
- Roger Alison
- (as Michael Branden)
Frank Wilcox
- McKingby
- (scenes deleted)
Griff Barnett
- Mr. Adams
- (uncredited)
Barbara Billingsley
- Weil
- (uncredited)
Lillian Bronson
- Secretary
- (uncredited)
George M. Carleton
- Attendant
- (uncredited)
James Carlisle
- Member
- (uncredited)
Thaddeus Jones
- Mr. Porterville
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaThis film received its USA television premiere in Los Angeles CA Monday 29 October 1956 on KTTV (Channel 11), followed by Seattle, WA Thursday 15 November 1956 on KING (Channel 5), by Philadelphia, PA Friday 30 November 1956 on WFIL (Channel 6), and by New York City, NY Thursday 13 December 1956 on WCBS (Channel 2); in Altoona, PA it first aired 5 April 1957 on WFBG (Channel 10), in Minneapolis, MN 8 June 1957 on KMGM (Channel 9), in Chicago, IL 21 June 1957 on WBBM (Channel 2), and in San Francisco, CA 31 December 1957 on KGO (Channel 7).
- GoofsThe newspaper report of the murder spells the word 'clue' as 'clew'. The use of the word "clew" for "clue" is old British English; a high-brow, literary spelling of the word. It is now considered archaic.
- Quotes
Tony Arnelo: All my life I've played it smart. It's not true anymore.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Akvaariorakkaus (1993)
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Temptation.
The thriller side only appears in the second part ;the first one,the best , is essentially psychological drama : a marriage on the rocks even though the husband does not realize it:when his wife tries to talk it over with him,he soliloquizes and his answer has nothing to do with her woman's concern ; he does not see that she's fascinated by Arnelo's charm (John Hodiak's look is real magnetism );as for the son (played by wunderkind Dean Stockwell,the future star of Fleischer's "compulsion" ) ,when he tinkers about with his dad ,most of the work is "too dangerous" for him ,and the boy has a relevant question:"what are you going to do when I grow up?";also revealing is his dream where everything is made of ice -cream,candy and chocolate ,but his mouth is sewn and he cannot take advantage of it .
Thus the characters are more detailed than the average thriller,and the murder mystery is more run of the mill stuff : the clues , the suspects ,the investigation , all is derivative .But Frances Gilford is pretty and moving , Georges Murphy gives an adequate performance as the indifferent husband obsessed by his nine to five work ;nonetheless,the stand out is arguably Hodiak as the refined and selfish womanizer.
Thus the characters are more detailed than the average thriller,and the murder mystery is more run of the mill stuff : the clues , the suspects ,the investigation , all is derivative .But Frances Gilford is pretty and moving , Georges Murphy gives an adequate performance as the indifferent husband obsessed by his nine to five work ;nonetheless,the stand out is arguably Hodiak as the refined and selfish womanizer.
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- Also known as
- Hemligt möte
- Filming locations
- Art Institute of Chicago - 111 S. Michigan Avenue, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois, USA(Opening shot when Tony Arnelo picks up Anne Parkson in his car)
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- $892,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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