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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Lana Turner | ... | Cora Smith | |
| John Garfield | ... | Frank Chambers | |
| Cecil Kellaway | ... | Nick Smith | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | Arthur Keats | |
| Leon Ames | ... | Kyle Sackett | |
| Audrey Totter | ... | Madge Gorland | |
| Alan Reed | ... | Ezra Liam Kennedy | |
| Jeff York | ... | Blair | |
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Nick Smith, the middle-aged proprietor of a roadside restaurant, hires drifter Frank Chambers as a handyman. Frank eventually begins an affair with Nick's beautiful wife Cora, who talks Frank into helping her kill Nick, by "accident." But the best laid plans...... Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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murder of husband | older husband younger wife relationship | drifter | district attorney | fatal attraction |Taglines:
Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed! See more »Parents Guide:
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14 October 1946 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
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$1,683,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$8,330,000, 31 December 1946Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Frank Chambers: I can sell anything to anybody.Cora Smith: That's what you think.
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