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A Balasaur Score of 58 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 33%. Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do. Most of the 112 1940s thriller movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Max.
Synopsis
Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes33%
Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do.
76 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter GodfreyDirector
- Franz WaxmanOriginal Music Composer
- Thomas JobScreenplay
Cast
- Humphrey BogartGeoffrey Carroll
- Barbara StanwyckSally Morton Carroll
- Alexis SmithCecily Latham
- Nigel BruceDr. Tuttle
- Isobel ElsomMrs. Latham
- Patrick O'MooreCharles Pennington
- Ann CarterBeatrice Carroll
- Anita Sharp-BolsterChristine
- Barry BernardHorace Blagdon
- Colin CampbellMacGregor (uncredited)
- Peter GodfreyFirst Tout (uncredited)
- Creighton HaleSecond Tout (uncredited)
