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Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Peter Forbes-Robertson
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- (as Peter Wayn)
Jim Brady
- Prisoner Escort
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaGary Cooper's cancer was at such an advanced stage that frequent breaks were required during filming for him to receive oxygen so he would be able to proceed to the next scene.
- Quotes
George Radcliffe: Do you think a woman could live with a man and sleep with him and not know she was sleeping with a murderer?
Martha Radcliffe: Do murderers make love differently?
- Crazy credits"Ladies and gentlemen, you now know who killed Jason Roote. Please do not reveal the secret to anyone."
- ConnectionsFeatured in Gary Cooper: The Face of a Hero (1998)
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Cooper's final bow...a melodrama with a high hysteria quotient, yet many strong attributes
Not-bad adaptation of Max Ehrlich's novel "First Train to Babylon" turned out to be Gary Cooper's final film (he died before its release). An American Air Freight sales manager in London testifies against a fellow employee in a murder/robbery trial; five years later, with the manager and his spouse now living in luxury, the wife begins to suspect that her husband was the killer the entire time. Hurt by a seemingly lower-end budget--and by a script that doesn't always make sense--this is still a most unusual project for Cooper, who manages a fine performance. Film builds to a fine pitch of suspense in its concluding sequence (which Adrian Lyne might have studied for his "Fatal Attraction" closer). Deborah Kerr stays wide-eyed and white-knuckled throughout as Cooper's wife; she's also quite good, though the godawful shlock music by William Alwyn underlines all of her suspicions with a thundering of drums that could wake the dead. So, is Cooper guilty or not? The finale provides an amusing frisson or two--and a twist which the ghostly voice-over informs the audience to please not betray. **1/2 from ****
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- Gross worldwide
- $1,185
- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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