The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
Ratings
IMDb7.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
46 audience votes
Key crew
- Cyril J. MockridgeOriginal Music Composer
- Edward ChodorovScreenplay
- Jean NegulescoDirector
Cast
- Ida LupinoLily Stevens
- Cornel WildePete Morgan
- Celeste HolmSusie Smith
- Richard WidmarkJefferson T. 'Jefty' Robbins
- O.Z. WhiteheadArthur
- Robert KarnesMike
- George BerangerLefty
- Ian MacDonaldPolice captain
- Grandon RhodesJudge
- Ray TealPoliceman
- Lee MacGregorMan
- Heinie ConklinMan with Newspaper /Court Clerk (uncredited)
Stills
Themes
bowlingnightclubroadhousesingerfilm noirframed for a crimebowling alley