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Synopsis: Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair by the compulsively seductive Vicki. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs her to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman whose influence can get him reinstated. When Buckley suspects she has used sexual favors to persuade Owens, he stabs him to death in a jealous rage in a railroad compartment. Jeff, a potential witness to the homicide, becomes an accessory after the fact.
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Production: Columbia Pictures
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
55%
APPROVED
Year:
1954
91 min
191 Views


You can't mean that.

You're all I have in the world.

I was wrong.

I shouldn't have

asked you to kill him.

I'll do anything you want.

I'll go to Carl, I'll go to the police.

Anything, Jeff.

Only you mustn't leave me.

You can't!

Why can't I?

Because I love you.

Here's your letter.

I found it in Carl's pocket.

(BELL RINGING)

(HORN BLOWING)

(INAUDIBLE)

(DOOR OPENING)

Where are you going, Vicki?

I'm sorry about the job and the

drinking and the gambling.

But you kept

pushing me away, Vicki.

You even pushed me

out of the house.

Oh, Vicki,

please don't leave me.

Oh, take your hands off of me.

I need you, Vicki.

I'll do anything you say.

I'll never mention

Owens' name again.

Vicki...

Vicki, I'll give you

back the letter.

(SCOFFS)

You haven't got it.

You haven't got anything.

You haven't got me or the

letter or a job or anything.

It's Warren.

You're going away

with Warren, aren't you?

I'm going away alone.

You wouldn't go away alone.

Not you, Vicki.

All right, I'm broke.

I'm all washed up.

It's Warren. He's young.

That's it, isn't it?

You want to get away from me

because I'm all washed up.

Oh, sure.

How could you understand

anything, you drunken...

I understand.

Don't worry about

my understanding.

Yes, you understand.

You're real bright.

Well, see if you

can understand this.

I'm in love with Jeff

and he walked out on me.

Do you know why?

Because I wanted him to

kill you and he couldn't.

You never knew me.

You never bothered to figure me out.

Well, I'm going

to tell you something.

Owens did have

something to do with me,

but it was because

I wanted him to.

I wanted that big house

he lived in.

I wanted him to get rid

of that wife of his.

But he wasn't

quite the fool you are.

He knew what I was after.

And you know what?

I admired him for it.

If I'd been a man, I'd have

behaved exactly as he did.

Now get out of here

and let me unpack!

Carl!

Carl!

Carl! Carl!

(HORN BLOWING)

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