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5 September 1956 (USA) moreTagline:
Put them all together they spell M-U-R-D-E-R ! morePlot:
Writer sets himself up to take murder rap to show the errors of circumstantial evidence. With a friend... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Square, straightforward Fritz Lang (what Hitchcock could've done with this!) moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dana Andrews | ... | Tom Garrett |
 | Joan Fontaine | ... | Susan Spencer |
 | Sidney Blackmer | ... | Austin Spencer |
| Arthur Franz | ... | Bob Hale |
| Philip Bourneuf | ... | Roy Thompson |
| Ed Binns | ... | Lt. Kennedy |
| Shepperd Strudwick | ... | Jonathan Wilson |
| Robin Raymond | ... | Terry Larue |
| Barbara Nichols | ... | Dolly Moore |
| William F. Leicester | ... | Charlie Miller (as William Leicester) |
| Dan Seymour | ... | Greco |
| Rusty Lane | ... | Judge |
| Joyce Taylor | ... | Joan Williams |
| Carleton Young | ... | Allan Kirk |
| Trudy Wroe | ... | Hatcheck girl |
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The last film that 'Fritz Lang' made in the USA before returning to Germany. moreSoundtrack:
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Opening with a ridiculously melodramatic prison execution scene, director Fritz Lang sets up this 'hard-bitten' story in the hoariest manner. Plot about a ex-newspaper man-turned-novelist incriminating himself in a murder he didn't commit (to make points on capital punishment AND come up with a bestseller in the bargain!) is just dumbfoundingly basic, a connect-the-dots noir without any of the genre's suspense, passion or intrigue. Hitchcock would have certainly added some subtext; here, Lang is straightforward in all the wrong ways, underlining every human stupidity just to make that maximum impact. It's a message picture wherein the message is buried underneath impossible contrivances. As late-night TV fodder, the film is just passable, but as a Hollywood career-capper for Fritz Lang it's all rather depressing. ** from ****