Directed by André de Toth.
A claims adjuster for an insurance company (Dick Powell) falls hard for Mona (Lizabeth Scott), who he is supposed to be investigating, and ends up involved in embezzlement and murder. It is the story of a clerk, dreaming to break out of his tired bourgeois existence, as first given form in German expressionist films like Die strasse (1923). However, the noir city has been supplanted by a darker suburbia.
Regal Films, Inc. Producer: Samuel Bischoff. Based on the novel by Jay Dratler. Cinematographer: Harry Wild. Editor: Walter Thompson. Screenwriter: Karl Kamb. Cast: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt, Raymond Burr, John Litel.
35mm, b/w, 86 min.
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