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24 December 1953 (USA)
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Charlton Heston | ... | Dr. Tom Owen |
 | Lizabeth Scott | ... | Helen Curtis |
 | Dianne Foster | ... | Joan Lasher |
 | Mildred Dunnock | ... | Mrs. Mary Owen |
| Arthur Franz | ... | Dr. Jim Crowley |
 | Ray Collins | ... | Dan Reasonover |
| Marjorie Rambeau | ... | Mrs. Roger Nelson |
| Lester Matthews | ... | Dr. Homer Gleeson |
 | Rhys Williams | ... | Dr. Leslie M. Scobee |
| Lydia Clarke | ... | Rita Thornburg |
| Chris Alcaide | ... | Pete Olzoneski |
| Robert Keys | ... | Joe Marzano |
| Frank Sully | ... | Tippy Kashko, Townsman |
 | Ann Robinson | ... | Lucille Grellett |
| Dorothy Green | ... | Ada Nicoletti |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Philip Ahlm | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Elsie Baker | ... | Mrs. Olzoneski (uncredited) |
| Ray Boyle | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Paul Bradley | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
 | Robert Bray | ... | Trooper at Mine Accident Scene (uncredited) |
| Donald Chaffin | ... | Interne (uncredited) |
| Helen Dickson | ... | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| James Dime | ... | Miner on Tram (uncredited) |
| Bob Edgecomb | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Charles Ferguson | ... | Spectator at Mine Disaster (uncredited) |
| Bess Flowers | ... | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Louise Franklin | ... | Maid (uncredited) |
| Lisa Golm | ... | Mrs. Marzano (uncredited) |
| Arlene Harris | ... | Mrs. Norton (uncredited) |
| Sam Harris | ... | Party Guest / Chess Player (uncredited) |
| Bobby Johnson | ... | Black Attendant at Golf Club (uncredited) |
| Reid Kilpatrick | ... | Mr. Finer - Jeweler (uncredited) |
| Earl Lee | ... | Upham (uncredited) |
| Peggy Leon | ... | Mrs. Hardy (uncredited) |
| Carl M. Leviness | ... | Party Guest / Chess Player (uncredited) |
| Harold Miller | ... | Party Guest / Golfer (uncredited) |
| Alix Nagy | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Barry Norton | ... | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| Grandon Rhodes | ... | Dr. Walter Messenger (uncredited) |
| Delia Salvi | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Ann Staunton | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Jeffrey Stone | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Barbara Sutton Smith | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Ruth Vann | ... | Miss Murphy (uncredited) |
| Valerie Vernon | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| Katherine Warren | ... | Mrs. Cartwright (uncredited) |
| Blackie Whiteford | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Irving Rapper | |||
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| Horace McCoy | (by) | |
| Irving Wallace | (screen play) | |
Produced by | |||
| William Fadiman | .... | associate producer | |
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| Franz Planer | |||
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| Al Clark | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Walter Holscher | |||
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| James Crowe | |||
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| Jean Louis | (gowns) | ||
Makeup Department | |||
| Clay Campbell | .... | makeup artist | |
| Helen Hunt | .... | hair stylist | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| James Nicholson | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| J.S. Westmoreland | .... | sound engineer (as Josh Westmoreland) | |
Music Department | |||
| Mischa Bakaleinikoff | .... | musical director | |
| George Duning | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
| Werner R. Heymann | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
| John Leipold | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
| Arthur Morton | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
| David Raksin | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
| Hans J. Salter | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
| Paul Sawtell | .... | composer: stock music (uncredited) | |
Other crew | |||
| Fritz Ford | .... | stand-in (uncredited) | |
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- Columbia Pictures (1953) (USA) (theatrical)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD) (Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol. 1)
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83 min
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #16585)
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Continuity: When Charlton Heston's character takes his nurse home, the car shown pulling up to the curb at her place is a Kaiser four door sedan. When Charlton Heston's character arrives at the mine blast he is driving a Lincoln two door hardtop.See more »
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A once-idealistic doctor from a small mining town sells his integrity for a big city practice treating wealthy dowagers. If you said to yourself "That sounds like an incredibly dull premise for a noir," give yourself a gold star. Nothing to see here but a bunch of heavy-handed speechifying and simplistic class distinctions. I've never cared for Charlton Heston (with the possible exception of TOUCH OF EVIL) and here he does a lot of jutting out his chin and looking handsome and delivering his lines with zero conviction. Lizabeth Scott is an actress I run hot and cold on... in this case, quite cold. She's entirely uninteresting as a "bad girl" whose primary vice is a mild materialist streak. I was also rather annoyed by Mildred Dunnock, playing Heston's hand-wringing mother. The script is just awful and photographically, the film is a dud, with a few instances of noticeably poor shot continuity (not a deal-breaker, but a pet peeve of mine). There's no tension, no real conflict, no doubt about how everything's going to turn out okay in the end. Bad for you, bad for me, bad for everyone.