The "Sudden Fear" of the title is what Miss Crawford experiences when she discovers that the young actor she has married, (an excellent and Oscar-nominated early performance from Jack Palance), is planning to murder her. David Miller's thriller is both extremely enjoyable and highly implausible with Joan pulling out all the stops and also picking up an Oscar nomination for her trouble. The movie marked something of a late career boost for her and was largely instrumental in launching Palance who clearly had a knack for playing the bad guy. As Mr Palance's partner-in-crime Gloria Grahame seems to be having a lot more fun here than she did in the overrated "The Bad and the Beautiful".
Review of Sudden Fear
