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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes ()

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A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.
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Thomas J. 'Tom' Quinn
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Ann Quinn
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Detective Clint Judd
Charles D. Brown ...
Inspector Stevens
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Harry
Robert Lowell ...
John Kosloff
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Tramp (uncredited)
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Apartment House Manager (uncredited)
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McGee - Apartment Resident (uncredited)
Walden Boyle ...
Priest (uncredited)
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Death Row Guard (uncredited)
Herman Cantor ...
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Hugh Charles ...
Counterman (uncredited)
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District Attorney (uncredited)
Ray Dolciame ...
Shoeshine Boy (uncredited)
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Death Row Prisoner #2 (uncredited)
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Mr. Lake - Quinn's Lawyer (uncredited)
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Death Row Prisoner #3 (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ...
Vaudeville Man (uncredited)
Lou Marcelle ...
Radio Announcer (uncredited) (voice)
Esther Michelson ...
Mrs. Finkelstein (uncredited)
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Policeman (uncredited)
William Ruhl ...
Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
John Shay ...
Salesman (uncredited)
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Judge (uncredited)
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Dancing Academy Customer (uncredited)
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Death Row Guard (uncredited)
Laura Treadwell ...
Mrs. Stevens (uncredited)
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Mrs. Alvin - Apartment Resident (uncredited)
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Campana - Grocer (uncredited)
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Death Row Prisoner #4 (uncredited)
Wally Walker ...
Clerk (uncredited)
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Death Row Prisoner #1 (uncredited)

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William Nigh

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Steve Fisher ... (screenplay by)
 
Cornell Woolrich ... (original story by)

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Walter Mirisch ... producer (produced by) (as Walter M. Mirisch)

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Mack Stengler ... (photographed by)

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Roy V. Livingston ... (as Roy Livingston)
Otho Lovering ... supervising editor

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Dave Milton

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Raymond Boltz Jr.

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Lela Chambers ... hair stylist (uncredited)

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Glenn Cook ... production supervisor

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William A. Calihan Jr. ... assistant director (uncredited)
Edward Morey Jr. ... assistant director (uncredited)

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Max M. Hutchinson ... sound recordist (as Max Hutchinson)

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Eddie Parker ... stunt double (uncredited)

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Durward Graybill ... still photographer (uncredited)
Harry Lewis ... grip (uncredited)
William Margulies ... camera operator (uncredited)

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Edward J. Kay ... musical director (as Edward Kay) / composer: stock music (uncredited)

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Ilona Vas ... script supervisor (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Tom and Ann Quinn are a down-and-out dance team, and while Don seeks engagements, Ann works as an instructor at a dance academy, with Detective Judd one of the many customers she meets. On a hot summer night Tom, awakened from his sleep, tosses his only pair of shoes out the window to quiet two noisy cats. He goes down to retrieve them and can't find them, but Ann discovers them in front of their door the next morning. A nearby miserly recluse is found murdered in his basement room that same day, while Tom finds a wallet at the dance academy filled with old $20 bills. Footprints, bearing an imprint like those on a tap-dancer's shoes, plus Don's new-found wealth combine to make a good circumstantial evidence case for the police against Tom, and he is convicted. Before his execution, Ann seeks Judd's help in proving Tom is innocent. He turns up a suspect, Kosloff, but an airtight alibi clears him. Written by Les Adams

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Taglines You'll GASP...When you see how easily it could happen to you! (original poster) See more »
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Also Known As
  • I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes! (United States)
  • Le condamné de la cellule cinq (France)
  • N-aş vrea să fiu în pantofii tăi (Romania)
  • En haluaisi olla kengissäsi (Finland)
  • O Segredo dos Sapatos (Brazil)
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Trivia I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) was based on the novel I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes by Cornell Woolrich (New York, 1943) with a screenplay by fellow pulp writer Steve Fisher. Woolrich's novel was based on a short story of the same title, which he published under the pseudonym William Irish, in a 1938 issue of "Detective Fiction Weekly." See more »
Goofs The whole investigation revolves around finding a shoe impression in the mud outside. The police conclude that the murderer left it, so finding the owner of the shoe means that one finds the murderer. But the impression was outside where ANYBODY could have made that impression, including any number of innocent passers-by who moved on elsewhere, as well as the murderer. Such was what should have been called a RED HERRING in murder mystery parlance. See more »
Soundtracks Piano Etude, Op. 10, No. 3 in E major, 'Tristesse' See more »
Quotes Inspector Stevens: A whole series of coincidences, just like you said the other night.
Ann Quinn: Coincidences? That's how you convicted my husband! He dies tomorrow night. It isn't right a man should die on circumstantial evidence alone. Can't you say anything?
Inspector Stevens: Our hands are tied, Mrs. Quinn.
Ann Quinn: All you're interested in is killing somebody! You don't care who it is, just as long as you kill somebody! Well, it'll be on your conscience, you hear?
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