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Blind Alley (1939)Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient. Director:Charles Vidor |
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Title: Blind Alley (1939)
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| Chester Morris | ... |
Hal Wilson
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| Ralph Bellamy | ... |
Dr. Anthony Shelby
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| Ann Dvorak | ... |
Mary
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Joan Perry | ... |
Linda Curtis
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Melville Cooper | ... |
George Curtis
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Rose Stradner | ... |
Doris Shelby
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John Eldredge | ... |
Dick Holbrook
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| Ann Doran | ... |
Agnes
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| Marc Lawrence | ... |
Buck
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Stanley Brown | ... |
Fred Landis
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Scotty Beckett | ... |
Davy Shelby
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Nick
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Marie Blake | ... |
Harriet
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Following a prison break, Hal Wilson, a ruthless killer takes refuge in the home of a psychiatrist, Dr. Shelby. While Wilson is attempting to make a safe getaway, Dr. Shelby is busily trying to analyze his captor and find out just what, in his dark past, made him the man he now has become. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 May 1939 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
L'étrange rêve See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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(1830-31) (uncredited)
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Played on the piano by Rose Stradner
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James Warwick's play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 24 September 1935 and closed in January 1936 after 119 performances. The opening night cast included George Coulouris as Dr. Shelby and Roy Hargrave as Hal Wilson. Also in the cast were Jay Adler, Lloyd Barry, Ruth Fallows, Mabel Montgomery, James Truex and Katherine Warren. See more »Goofs
The gangster's fingers are supposedly paralyzed, but when he pushes the "Insanity and the Criminal Mind" book back onto the shelf, you can clearly see him flick it into place with one of his "paralyzed" fingers. See more »Soundtracks
"Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 in E flat major"(1830-31) (uncredited)
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Played on the piano by Rose Stradner
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I saw this movie when I was seven, 'way back in 1939. I had never seen anything like the dream sequence and the psychiatrist's explanation. They both were shot from the camera's viewpoint, something I wasn't to see again until Robert Montgomery's version of Raymond Chandler's "The Lady In The Lake. This stuck in my cerebellum since. The remake, "The Dark Past," with Wm. Holden wasn't quite as good, but then I was older and more sophisticated when I saw that one. And, anyone who says Chester Morris couldn't act obviously hasn't seen "The Big House," "Three Godfathers" (not the John Wayne one), or any of the Boston Blackie movies. P.S. Where are the Boston Blackie movies?