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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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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| 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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| Milburn Stone | ... |
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>
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?