A piano-playing drunk, a desperate wife, and Peter Lorre slinking around—noir doesn't get more twisted than this.
A falsely convicted man's wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin, team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who is Martin's wife.
Acting
Dan Duryea's shattered pianist—vulnerable and volatile.
Direction
Roy William Neill's final film, pure noir economy.
Score
Duryea's own piano playing, raw and unpolished.
Director
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea
Martin Blair
June Vincent
Catherine Bennett
Peter Lorre
Marko
Broderick Crawford
Captain Flood
Constance Dowling
Mavis Marlowe
Wallace Ford
Joe
Hobart Cavanaugh
Jake
Freddie Steele
Lucky, Manager of Rio's
Ben Bard
Bartender
Junius Matthews
Dr. Courtney
Marion Martin
Millie
John Phillips
Kirk Bennett
Archie Twitchell
George Mitchell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dan Duryea, usually the villain, begged for sympathetic roles—this was his rare shot at leading-man tragedy.
The film's amnesia plot was controversial; Cornell Woolrich hated the adaptation so much he demanded his name be removed.
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