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Overview

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7.6/10   2,960 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Lucille Fletcher (radio play)
Lucille Fletcher (screenplay)
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Release Date:
1 September 1948 (USA) more
Tagline:
She overheard the plans for her own destruction! more
Plot:
Leona Stevenson is sick and confined to her bed. One night, whilst waiting for her husband to return home... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations more
User Comments:
Suspense film of Hitchcock calibre more (65 total)

Cast

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Barbara Stanwyck ... Leona Stevenson

Burt Lancaster ... Henry Stevenson
Ann Richards ... Sally Hunt Lord
Wendell Corey ... Dr. Alexander
Harold Vermilyea ... Waldo Evans

Ed Begley ... James Cotterell
Leif Erickson ... Fred Lord

William Conrad ... Morano
John Bromfield ... Joe - Detective
Jimmy Hunt ... Peter Lord
Dorothy Neumann ... Miss Elizabeth Jennings
Paul Fierro ... Harpootlian
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Additional Details

Runtime:
89 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Film noir adaptation of the famous 1943 radio play. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Whenever camera pans out Leona's window to cityscape with moving cars, city lights, etc., smoke emitting from smokestacks never moves. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Leona Stevenson: Operator! Operator! Operator!
Voice of Operator: Your call please?
Leona Stevenson: Operator, I've been ringing Murray Hill 35097 for the last half hour and the line is always busy. Will you ring it for me, please?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Hackers (1995) more
Soundtrack:
June in January more

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11 out of 18 people found the following comment useful.
Suspense film of Hitchcock calibre, 4 May 1999
7/10
Author: anonymous

Barbara Stanwyck as a bedridden,neurotic woman who due to crossed telephone lines accidentally overhears a murder plot. As this tense thriller moves along she comes to know that it is her the murders are after.Panic arises......

This is a one-actor piece and Stanwyck carries the assignment brilliantly.As the selfish,neurotic Leona Stevenson she lets us see all of the characters frailties and her mounting fright as she becomes aware that she's to be a murder victim.Burt Lancaster has limited screentime as the husband,but he makes the most of it. A suspense film almost of the Hitchcock calibre.

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Barbara was really nasty in this movie!!! HoferPM-1
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Hag Line??? 4thlake
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