A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Acting
John Ireland's trembling, cornered-animal desperation
Cinematography
Shadows that swallow rooms whole
Director
E.A. Dupont
John Ireland
John Howard Barrington
Mercedes McCambridge
Connie Carter
James Barton
Ezra Thompson
Emlyn Williams
Dr. David Dunbar
Lloyd Gough
Asylum Dr. Gordon
Basil Ruysdael
Cyrus Barrington
David Bauer
Level Louie
Harry Shannon
Asylum Warden Anderson
Celia Lovsky
Mrs. Cyrus Barrington
David McMahon
State Trooper
Chubby Johnson
Feed Store Manager
Frank Jenks
Tom, Drunk Cowboy
Emmett Lynn
Jack, Waiter
Dick Wessel
Sid, Drunk Cowboy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mercedes McCambridge won her Oscar for All About Eve the same year—this was her follow-up, playing a diner waitress with secrets.
E.A. Dupont was a German Expressionist refugee; his fractured angles here are Weimar shadows haunting postwar American anxiety.
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