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Sudden Fear (1952)
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August 1952 (USA)
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Every Suspenseful Moment...Every Embrace...Every Kiss - A Breathtaking Experience! more
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A wealthy lady playwright is wooed by and ultimately marries a younger actor/con artist she once fired. full summary | add synopsis
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Cat And Mouse
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Gun
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 1 nomination
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(4 articles)
Movie Bad Guy Palance Dead at 87
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 13 November 2006)
Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies at 87
(From IMDb News. 12 November 2006)
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 13 November 2006)
Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies at 87
(From IMDb News. 12 November 2006)
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Joan Crawford | ... | Myra Hudson | |
| Jack Palance | ... | Lester Blaine | |
| Gloria Grahame | ... | Irene Neves | |
| Bruce Bennett | ... | Steve Kearney | |
| Virginia Huston | ... | Ann Taylor | |
| Mike Connors | ... | Junior Kearney (as Touch Connors) |
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110 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Mike Connors first film role.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: After Lester puts down Irene's telephone, he calls out her name three times but the second we hear her name, his lips don't move at all.
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Myra Hudson:
I was just wondering what I'd done to deserve you
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Referenced in Michael, Angelo and David (1976)
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AFRAID
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This is a real edge-of-your-seat nail-biter. David Miller did a terrific job of directing this one, and the cinematography is spectacular by Charles Lang. Some of the shots are as inspired as anything ever seen in Hollywood, such as one in Joan Crawford's library where upon hearing an inadvertent recording made on her dictaphone, she gradually shrinks back in horror against the far wall, until she becomes nearly a dot in the distance. That shot is a real triumph of cinematic inspiration. Much is accomplished with a clock and its pendulum, with the star-shaped pendulum at one point shown in shadow swinging across her chest as she gets more and more anxious. None of this is overdone, but is all subtle and effective. Joan Crawford has us all spellbound with her magnificent performance. She throws vanity to the winds, and is not afraid to show her character as someone in the round, complete with cowardice, foolishness, and even extreme stupidity, combined with cunning, intelligence, charm and inspiration. Rarely has a woman been shown so soaked in sweat with sheer terror, and she must have stepped straight out of the shower for each of those shots. When we aren't staring at her incredulous, we notice that Jack Palance is highly effective, and then we have the delectable treat of Gloria Grahame turning up. Which true cineaste does not adore Gloria Grahame? She herself probably never knew what all the fuss was about, regarding herself no doubt as an ordinary girl. But Gloria Grahame was far from ordinary. She had that indefinable something plus a lot of other somethings, which for reasons which are deeply mysterious and impossible to explain leave many people like myself in a state of entranced wonder. What was it about her? No matter how many times we watch her we will never know, all we can say is there will never be another one. This film is a real humdinger.