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After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.
John Ridgely
- David Wallace
- (as John Ridgeley)
Robert Hyatt
- Richard Kenet
- (as Bobby Hyatt)
Jean Andren
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
Russell Arms
- Patient Awaiting Discharge Hearing
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaBoth Audrey Totter and Robert Taylor relished making this film - Totter, because she got to play a professional woman as she did in Lady in the Lake (1946), and Taylor, because he got to act and not just be a "pretty boy".
- GoofsAt around ten minutes, a group of doctors are looking at Kenet's skull x-rays. The x-rays are hung behind the illuminated frosted glass panels - so that we can see the x-rays, but the doctors could not. And the x-ray as we see it is oriented correctly to show a left side hematoma, but to the doctors, the x-ray is reversed meaning the hematoma would be on the right.
- Quotes
Steven Kenet: All this is confidential between doctor and patient isn't it? You're in a hurry to get in and report this aren't you? Well I can't stop you but just remember, you're the one who sold me on the idea of surgery, of fighting for an acquittal. Why did you bother?
- SoundtracksNocturne Op. 9, No. 2
(uncredited)
Composed by Frédéric Chopin
[The piano piece Slocum plays on the phonograph for Steve when they first meet at dinner]
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Above-average film noir & Robert Taylor
I've never been a particular fan of actor Robert Taylor, who seemed to be cast as a good-looking face wrapped in a good suit, over which various leading ladies swooned in movies of the '40s and '50s. Now I've seen him acting up a storm in this 1947 noir opposite the underrated Audrey Totter and the character actor Herbert Marshall. He's an ex-military flyboy whose severe headaches have grounded him, requiring neurosurgery, which may or may not explain why he can't remember if he killed his wife. Don't you hate it when that happens? And now his chief concern is for his 6-year-old son's well being. Totter plays the psych treating him who starts to think (of course) that he might NOT be a "homicidal maniac," an expression that every other medical professional and LEO uses to describe him for an hour's worth of the movie. In addition to the German expressionist look courtesy of director Curtis Bernhardt, the script has several clever observations in it, incl. the relationship between mental & physical health, and the effect on that health our secrets can have on each of us. 7/10
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- Also known as
- Anklage - Mord
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- $1,844,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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