Cross My Heart (1946)

Director:

John Berry

Writers:

Georges Berr (play)
Claude Binyon (writer)

Release Date:

10 January 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Based On Play

Cast

Betty Hutton	...	Peggy Harper
Sonny Tufts	...	Oliver Clarke
Rhys Williams	...	Prosecutor
Ruth Donnelly	...	Eve Harper
Al Bridge	...	Det. Flynn (as Alan Bridge)
Iris Adrian	...	Miss Baggart
Howard Freeman	...	Wallace Brent
Lewis L. Russell	...	Judge
Michael Chekhov	...	Peter

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #10822, Adult Audience)

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

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.Because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and was not televised until many years later.

Movie Connections:

Version of True Confession (1937)

Soundtrack:

HOW DO YOU DO IT

Betty Hutton is the Whole Show

Betty Hutton is the whole show here in a remake of the failed 1937 film TRUE CONFESSION. Hutton plays a compulsive liar who gets involved in a murder case to boost the career of her boy friend (Sonny Tufts). But she gets more than she bargains for.

OK comedy and Hutton as always is a lot of fun. Tufts is a dud.

Good supporting cast includes Michael Chekhov as the nutty actor, Al Bridge as the detective, Ruth Donnelly as Hutton's mother, Rhys Williams as the prosecutor, Iris Adrian as a floozie, Jimmy Conlin and Ida Moore as jurors, Tom Dugan and Tom Fadden as moving men. Also spotted are Frank Faylen, Frank Ferguson, Jody Gilbert, Howard Freeman, Kathleen Howard, Mae Busch, Spec O'Donnell, Gladden James, Sarah Edwards, and Almira Sessions.

As usual Hutton is better than the material. And this film is not as good as the 1937 version starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.