Starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson.
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I saw this movie on Retroplex today and this is one of my favorite Film Noirs because there is so many twisted plots in this movie that I find it to be so cleverly written that I enjoyed every minute of the great dialogue between the three stars above. To me, I find the pairing of MacMurray and Stanwyck to be an odd pairing in this wonderful film they seems to blend each other just beautifully, so twisted, and so diabolically insane that I loved every minute of this movie. I haven't seen this movie in years and I'm glad that I caught this movie by accident today! I'm
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To me, the real star of this movie is Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes that does not buy the story behind the death of Mr. Dietrichson that he convinced everyone that this is a set-up done by another man that he tries so hard to put a finger on it - so at the end he finally got all the "facts" behind the suspicious death of Phyllis (played by Stanwyck) Dietrichson's husband.
This is one neat Film Noir ... one thing that I don't like about this movie is that Barbara Stanwyck wore an ill-fitting blonde wig in this movie ... on television its looks like her hair has been bleached white and gave it a nasty effect that I didn't care for. Maybe members here ... might have the same feelings that I do; but I wished that they hadn't done that in the first place.
This is must see movie and this is one of Fred MacMurray's better performances as an actor and I was surprised that their wasn't a thread devoted to this wonderful movie that was released back in 1944. But, I would definitely give this movie a solid 4 stars rating because the movie is well written, good fast pace, good photography, and most of all excellent acting by all supporting characters especially Jean Heather who played Lola Dietrichson ... Phyllis's sister in the movie and Porter Hall as Mr. Jackson.