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Jerome T. Gollard (original screenplay)
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15 October 1948 (USA)
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A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town. full summary | add synopsis
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You're very pretty...when your lips aren't moving
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Charles Russell | ... | Harold Dunlap |
| Mary Beth Hughes | ... | Jean Maxwell |
| Dale Belding | ... | Mike Bennett |
| Billy House | ... | McFee |
| Fritz Leiber | ... | Dr. Valonius |
| Nana Bryant | ... | Mrs. Mitchell |
| Lee Patrick | ... | Ruth Bennett |
| Roscoe Ates | ... | Willie |
| Eddie Parks | ... | Barney |
| Eve Miller | ... | Marie Kembar |
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62 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Canada:PG (Ontario)
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Spoofed in The Ghost Talks (1949)
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Inner Sanctum (1948)
A short, bizarre, surprisingly captivating film. It's totally Twilight Zone when you get to the last two minutes, so hang in there for the hour before that. It has a noir quality that makes it moody, and it has some truly artsy expressionist segments montaged in during the flood, partly as psychological metaphor. The director, Lew Landers, has an astonishing 100 plus movies and a lot of early television to his name, and I'm guessing there are some other sterling moments among them.
But for the moment we have Inner Sanctum. There is a candid, campy acting throughout that's fresh and entertaining, from the boy who's a convincing sweetie to the reporter who's a total bumbling hoot (watch him cheat at checkers). If it borders on deliberate comedy at times, it's more sustained by its tone of utter innocence among the townspeople, so they joke and make odd comments exactly the way real people would. The candid quality is at odds with the one rather stiff character, the lead man, who carries some kind of weight around beyond even his crime. Such is the film noir lead at its archetypal best, and this is from the height of post-war noir.
So, a great movie it isn't but a movie with great qualities it is. No joke.