A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
Acting
Holden's ticking-bomb stillness vs. Cobb's intellectual sweating.
Direction
Maté traps you in that house, no escape, no relief.
Director
Rudolph Maté
William Holden
Al Walker
Nina Foch
Betty
Lee J. Cobb
Dr. Andrew Collins
Adele Jergens
Laura Stevens
Stephen Dunne
Owen Talbot
Lois Maxwell
Ruth Collins
Berry Kroeger
Mike
Steven Geray
Prof. Fred Linder
Wilton Graff
Frank Stevens
Robert Osterloh
Pete
Kathryn Card
Nora
Charles Cane
Sheriff (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins
Al's Father (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a remake of 1939's 'Blind Alley,' also directed by Maté — he essentially remade his own homework.
Post-war audiences ate up psychoanalysis as plot device; Freud was popcorn entertainment in '48.
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