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Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.
Paul E. Burns
- Clerk
- (as Paul Burns)
Robert Ben Ali
- Rosie
- (uncredited)
Ray Bennett
- Man at Dock
- (uncredited)
Robert Bice
- Maxwell's Thug
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Steve Sekely
- Paul Henreid(uncredited)
- Writers
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- TriviaAccording to the audio commentary by Imogen Sara Smith, production was shut down for a day and restarted after Steve Sekely was removed from the picture for creative differences, with Paul Henreid taking over. Sekely retained director credit for contractual reasons.
- GoofsWhen John is pumping gas, the pump shows $1.00's worth - but at 25 1/2 cents per gallon as indicated, the pump should read 3.9 gallons delivered, but it reads 4.9 gallons.
- Quotes
John Muller: What happened? Did he hurt you?
Evelyn Hahn: Do I look hurt?
John Muller: I should say you do.
Evelyn Hahn: Well, don't fool yourself. You don't get hurt these days.
John Muller: No?
Evelyn Hahn: No. It's very simple. You never expect anything, so you're never disappointed.
John Muller: You're a bitter little lady.
Evelyn Hahn: It's a bitter little world full of sad surprises, and you don't go around letting people hurt you.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vampira Returns: The Scar 1948 (1956)
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Terrific hard-boiled double-identity thriller in the noir genre
Paul Henreid produced this film in which he starred, eerily portraying a totally amoral man who does not see anything at all wrong with the occasional murder, as long as he 'needs to do it'. John Bennett delivers an equally powerful performance of a woman who, although not good, is certainly not bad, and it is curious that this study of a woman's fixation on a bad man through infatuation was made in the same year as 'Force of Evil' which showed an even more extreme form of that. It must have been 'beauty and the beast' year. The ingenious plot concerns a double-identity, so there are two major threads of intrigue going on at once. Needless to say, Joan Bennett is involved with both Henreids, but prefers the baddie because he is more spellbinding and, let's face it, far from boring. This is a well-directed, sometimes brutal, atmospheric thriller which is something of a lost classic. It is now available on DVD under its alternative title of 'The Scar', which is a most unfortunate title, as people don't like scars (even though there is one in the story). Joan Bennett was really made for these films, as she proved in 'The Woman in the Window' and 'Scarlet Street' for instance. There is something ambiguous about her, something hard that is soft, you can't quite figure her. That's just right for noir. You should never be able to figure noir, everything should stay in the shadows where it belongs. The thing about a good thriller like this is, the mystery goes beyond the story itself and becomes the mystery of people themselves, what is it that goes on inside heads, those impenetrable citadels of secrets.
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- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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