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7.2/10
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A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.A night club owner becomes infatuated with a torch singer and frames his best friend/manager for embezzlement when the chanteuse falls in love with him.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Louis Bacigalupi
- Burly Drunk
- (uncredited)
Edgar Caldwell
- Man
- (uncredited)
Robert Cherry
- Pinboy
- (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
- Man with Newspaper
- (uncredited)
- …
Clancy Cooper
- Policeman at Road House
- (uncredited)
Jack Edwards
- Man
- (uncredited)
Charles Flynn
- Policeman at Bus Depot
- (uncredited)
Robert Foulk
- Policeman at Road House
- (uncredited)
Douglas Gerrard
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the musical drama, The Man I Love (1946), Peg La Centra dubbed the singing voice of Ida Lupino. In this film, from the following year, Miss Lupino did her own singing.
- GoofsJefty is seen leaving the cabin with a rifle in his left hand and a can of tomato juice in his right hand. In the next shot when he actually exits the cabin he has the rifle in his right hand and the tomato juice in his left hand.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)
- SoundtracksOne for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
(uncredited)
Music by Harold Arlen
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
Sung by Ida Lupino
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The movie doesn't really take off until the last third when Widmark (Jefty) gets angry at last. And every fan of noir knows what happens when Widmark starts losing it. No one before or since can equal that deranged giggle, and here it's worth waiting for. Just watch his little William Tell sporting event with Lupino (Lilly) in that nightmare forest where no birds sing or deer roam. In fact, what I like best is the art department's contribution. That road house interior is a real eye-catcher, sort of a post-war mix of woodsy cabin and singles recreation center where actual people set up bowling pins while a hulking brute wrecks everything else.
Great role for Lupino. She gets to do her hard case with a soft heart as a torch singer all the way from big city Chicago. Her raspy rendition of One More for the Road is a riveting one-of- a-kind and in her own voice too. (What an immensely talented woman, and why did Hollywood never honor her for that.) Lilly's problem is not one man but two. But then by the time she slips into those white short-shorts, we know she's decided on Wilde whose manly chest no doubt has something to do with it. The trouble is that leaves Widmark as odd-man- out and we know what that means. Question-- What's the point of Susie's (Celeste Holm) role in the movie? Maybe I missed something.
Anyhow, it's an atmospheric 90 minutes, complete with rainy streets, smoky rooms, and that gloomy forest from heck. The movie may not rise to noir classic, but in the meantime, it'll sure do.
Great role for Lupino. She gets to do her hard case with a soft heart as a torch singer all the way from big city Chicago. Her raspy rendition of One More for the Road is a riveting one-of- a-kind and in her own voice too. (What an immensely talented woman, and why did Hollywood never honor her for that.) Lilly's problem is not one man but two. But then by the time she slips into those white short-shorts, we know she's decided on Wilde whose manly chest no doubt has something to do with it. The trouble is that leaves Widmark as odd-man- out and we know what that means. Question-- What's the point of Susie's (Celeste Holm) role in the movie? Maybe I missed something.
Anyhow, it's an atmospheric 90 minutes, complete with rainy streets, smoky rooms, and that gloomy forest from heck. The movie may not rise to noir classic, but in the meantime, it'll sure do.
- dougdoepke
- Nov 10, 2008
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- Dark Love
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- Gross worldwide
- $4,467
- Runtime1 hour 35 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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