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Beware, My Lovely (1952)
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7 August 1952 (USA) moreTagline:
Trapped by a man beyond control!Plot:
A psychopath takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Proficient ,and gripping thriller moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Ida Lupino | ... | Mrs. Helen Gordon |
 | Robert Ryan | ... | Howard Wilton |
| Taylor Holmes | ... | Mr. Walter Armstrong |
| Barbara Whiting | ... | Ruth Williams |
| James Willmas | ... | Mr. Stevens |
| O.Z. Whitehead | ... | Mr. Franks |
| Dee Pollock | ... | Doug, Grocery Boy (as Dee Pollack) |
| Brad Morrow | ... | Boy |
| Jimmy Mobley | ... | Jimmy, Boy |
| Shelly Lynn Anderson | ... | Boy |
| Ronnie Patterson | ... | Boy |
| Jeanne Eggenweiler | ... | Jeanne, Girl |
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Mono (RCA Sound System)Fun Stuff
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Original movie title was "Day Without End". moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the opening scene, the murder victim blinks. moreFAQ
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Mel Dinelli , whose contributions to the movies include the intelligent scripts to the minor classics "The Window " and "The Spiral Staircase" wrote a play called "The Man " which ran on Broadway and provided the source material for this entertaining minor thriller . Ida Lupino plays a widow in small town middle America ,shortly after World War one ,who gives a job as house cleaner to a vagrant ,played by Robert Ryan ,unaware that he is a psychopath ,with a tendency to memory lapses ,and a history of killing his former employers as well as having a major persecution complex. It is not too long before she is being held prisoner in her own home and in mortal fear of her life .
Crisp direction from Harry Horner and two coiled spring performances by the estimable leads keep interest and tension high . Only a strident and conventional score ,replete with skittish strings and discordant brass ,plus a somewhat rushed ending mitigate against a higher rating.
Gripping and enjoyable all the same with both stars confirming how undervalued they still are.