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Synopsis: A mousy drugstore manager turns killer after his conniving wife leaves him for another man. He devises a complex plan, which involves assuming a new identity, to make it look like someone else murdered her new boyfriend. Things take an unexpected turn when someone else commits the murder first and he becomes the prime suspect.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Director(s): John Berry
Actors: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan
Production: MGM
 
IMDB:
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Year:
1949
95 min
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Not one thing is the same as when the doc

occupied this apartment.

No matter where you planted the gun,

you trap yourself.

- Oh, Collie, you can't do this, not to us.

- Sorry, baby.

It was a good try, Claire.

You almost made it.

- Lieutenant?

- Yeah?

You didn't change anything.

Everything in this room is the same.

You didn't change anything.

No. That would've been

a lot of work, wouldn't it?

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Allen Rivkin

Allen Rivkin (1903-1990) was an American screenwriter. He was one of the co-founders of the Screenwriters Guild, later the Writers Guild of America. more…

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