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Storm Warning (1951)
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10 February 1951 (USA)
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Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman...
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An Overlooked Film Noir
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Ginger Rogers | ... | Marsha Mitchell | |
| Ronald Reagan | ... | Burt Rainey | |
| Doris Day | ... | Lucy Rice | |
| Steve Cochran | ... | Hank Rice | |
| Hugh Sanders | ... | Charlie Barr | |
| Lloyd Gough | ... | Cliff Rummel | |
| Raymond Greenleaf | ... | Faulkner | |
| Ned Glass | ... | George Athens | |
| Paul E. Burns | ... | Frank Hauser, Baggage Man | |
| Walter Baldwin | ... | Coroner Bledsoe | |
| Lynn Whitney | ... | Cora Athens | |
| Stuart Randall | ... | Walt Walters | |
| Sean McClory | ... | Shore |
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Storm Center (USA) (working title)
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93 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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The studio wanted Lauren Bacall and Doris Day to star in the film, but Bacall went to Africa with her husband Humphrey Bogart to film The African Queen (1951)
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Plot holes: A character is murdered by the KKK after 10pm one evening. An autopsy is performed, witnesses interviewed and a coroner's inquest is held - all by the following afternoon, hardly twelve hours after crime was committed.
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Cliff Rummel:
I can't show the new summer line without a model.
Marsha Mitchell: Show 'em on hangers.
Cliff Rummel: Hangers haven't got what you've got!
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Marsha Mitchell: Show 'em on hangers.
Cliff Rummel: Hangers haven't got what you've got!
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This film holds up so very well even after fifty years. The searing indictment of smalltown xenophobia and the struggle for truth is the hallmark here. Reagan does well in the role, but Steve Cochran and especially Ginger Rogers really shine here. The closing seconds with the fleeing Klansmen and the crumbling fiery cross coupled with strong orchestral strings leaves a hard hitting message that resonates. This film belongs on DVD as a testament to the ongoing struggle against intolerance, ignorance, and the fear of those things that are different. 1951 - 2001, sadly the need for that continues.