The read
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes85%
Critics rate it 17 points higher than audiences do.
104 audience votes
Key crew
- Fritz LangDirector
- Charles HoffmanScreenplay
- Raoul KraushaarOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Anne BaxterNorah Larkin
- Richard ConteCasey Mayo
- Ann SothernCrystal Carpenter
- Raymond BurrHarry Prebble
- Jeff DonnellSally Ellis
- Richard ErdmanAl
- George ReevesSam Haynes
- Ruth StoreyRose Miller
- Ray WalkerHomer
- Nat King ColeNat King Cole
- Fay BakerSwitchboard Monitor (uncredited)
- Robert BicePoliceman (uncredited)
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Themes
film noirclinch and kill