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| Hugo Haas | ... | Jan 'Hunky' Horak | |
| Beverly Michaels | ... | Betty Horak | |
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Allan Nixon | ... | Steve Kowalski |
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Howland Chamberlain | ... | 'The Professor', tramp |
| Jo-Carroll Dennison | ... | Irma, Betty's friend | |
| Bernard Gorcey | ... | Peddler with Dog | |
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Mark Lowell | ... | Counter-man |
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Jack Daley | ... | Company Doctor |
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Art Lewis | ... | The Motorist |
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Marjorie Beckett | ... | Woman In Crowd |
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Low-budget, tabloid-lurid story with high camp value of older man falling for much younger beauty who's busy figuring out how she can kill him now that they're married. Nasty verbal encounters and above all, Beverly Michaels, spike up this flick. Written by <cantor@sirius.com>
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24 July 1951 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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The reviewer who said "Citizen Kane it ain't" got it right. This is lowbrow stuff to be sure, but for what it is, Haas demonstrates a surprisingly keen eye for both dialogue and characterization, two things supremely lacking in the cheaper and lesser BAIT produced a few years later. Best of all, this is a highly entertaining ride, with a solid and credible performance by Haas as the pigeon who all but begs for a plucking until he sees the light (or rather hears the dark) when he overhears the plotting and venomous bile directed at him by his conniving and venal wife, who believes him to be deaf.
Trumping all however is the bravura dominatrixesque performance of Ms. Michaels as the throaty pointy-bra'ed femme fatale. Here's one of the few broads I've ever come across who might be able to actually compete with Ann Savage's mouthy and devouring DETOUR chippie for supremacy over a castrated male race. And leave the male species begging for more.
Also in the movie's favor is a reasonably tight storyline which features some nice twists and reveals with great gusto the true depths of treachery to which Michaels gleefully stoops to get her $7300 out of Haas. Again, this isn't DOUBLE INDEMNITY and it certainly isn't Shakespeare but it's charmingly pulpy and has an agreeably creamy evil nougat centre.