The read
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 83% of the 121 1940s crime movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 24 points higher than audiences do.
188 audience votes
Key crew
- John FarrowDirector
- Jonathan LatimerScreenplay
- Victor YoungOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Ray MillandGeorge Stroud
- Charles LaughtonEarl Janoth
- Maureen O'SullivanGeorgette Stroud
- George MacreadySteve Hagen
- Rita JohnsonPauline York
- Elsa LanchesterLouise Patterson
- Harold VermilyeaDon Klausmeyer
- Dan TobinRoy Cordette
- Harry MorganBill Womack
- Richard WebbNat Sperling
- Elaine RileyLily Gold
- Luis van RootenEdwin Orlin
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Themes
new york citybased on novel or bookclockmagazinefilm noirmurderframed for a crimepublishercrime fiction writersundial