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Director:
Stuart Heisler
Writers:
Lester Cole (screenplay)
Lester Cole (story)
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Release Date:
19 December 1941 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller more
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Plot:
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother. full summary | add synopsis
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Fairly primitive doppelganger thriller, interesting for early Susan Hayward more (4 total)

Cast

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Albert Dekker ... John Raden / Paul Raden

Susan Hayward ... Millie Pickens
Harry Carey ... Doctor Ben Saunders

Frances Farmer ... Elaine Raden
Gordon Jones ... Bill Oakley
Jean Phillips ... Peggy Nolan
Ernest Whitman ... Pompey
Maude Eburne ... Mrs. Pickens
Len Hendry ... Clerk
Frank M. Thomas ... Sheriff
Harlan Briggs ... Judge
Archie Twitchell ... Tom Reilly
Dorothy Sebastian ... Woman in Cafe
William Stack ... Minister
Ella Neal ... 1st Mill Girl
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Runtime:
67 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording) | Mono
Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (1943) | Sweden:(Banned) (1942)
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. more
Quotes:
[Not knowing Paul is the escaped serial killer, Millie gives him a gun and suggests they search the deserted Raden estate to earn the reward for his capture]
Paul Raden: You're not afraid -- at all?
Millie Pickens: For five thousand dollars, I'm not afraid of anything, not even death!
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Fairly primitive doppelganger thriller, interesting for early Susan Hayward, 4 December 2001
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Author: bmacv from Western New York

Just what sort of movie is Among the Living? It's not that easy to determine. This short (67 minute) 1941 offering is part thirties gothic and part early noir; in any case it's fairly primitive but it has its moments. Albert Dekker (his screen debut) plays twin brothers, one of whom, presumed dead for a quarter-century, is an infantile psychotic. He's been sequestered away in the decrepit family pile all these years but manages to escape, taking up residence in a rooming house owned by the young Susan Hayward's mother. When it looks like the gibbering idiot has money to burn, Hayward sets her hat for him. The most interesting facet of the film is watching Susan Hayward play her speciality, an on-screen hellion, particularly since Frances Farmer, gets wasted as the proper and dutiful wife of the "good" Albert Dekker. Much mayhem ensues, revolving around the confusion between the brothers (the existence of one of whom, remember, has been a deep dark secret). Toward the end, the film develops an ugly energy as the townspeople coalesce into a lynch mob, but, beware: this is not Fritz Lang's Fury. By modern standards, Among the Living has become a curio.

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