The read
Scores higher than 75% of the 420 1940s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Ratings
IMDb7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes89%
Metacritic84/100
389 audience votes
Key crew
- Tay GarnettDirector
- Harry RuskinScreenplay
- George BassmanOriginal Music Composer
- Niven BuschScreenplay
Cast
- John GarfieldFrank Chambers
- Lana TurnerCora Smith
- Cecil KellawayNick Smith
- Hume CronynArthur Keats
- Leon AmesKyle Sackett
- Audrey TotterMadge Gorland
- Alan ReedEzra Liam Kennedy
- Jeff YorkBlair
- Philip AhlmPhotographer (uncredited)
- John AlbanPhotographer (uncredited)
- Don AndersonOrderly Pushing Wheelchair (uncredited)
- Morris AnkrumJudge (uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
adulteryinfidelitybased on novel or bookgas stationdinerfemme fatalefilm noirmurderblack and whitedrifterolder husbandcrime of passion