101 mins |
Rated
PG
After being falsely convicted of murdering his wife, Vincent Parry escapes San Quentin and shacks up with Irene Jansen, a woman whose innocent father died in prison. Undergoing plastic surgery to change his appearance, Vincent sets off on the hunt for the real killer under a new identity.
Curator’s note: A surprisingly experimental and underseen curio from the classic Hollywood era. It features one of the most beloved tinseltown pairings in Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and a wonderful scenery-chewing turn from The Magnificent Amberson’s Agnes Moorhead. The deliciously thick noir atmosphere is amplified by the striking use of San Francisco locations (similarly to our other San Francisco-set film Invasion of the Body Snatchers), The bold choice of camerawork in the film’s first half will completely take you by surprise in its daringness for a 1940s studio picture.
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After being falsely convicted of murdering his wife, Vincent Parry escapes San Quentin and shacks up with Irene Jansen, a woman whose innocent father died in prison. Undergoing plastic surgery to change his appearance, Vincent sets off on the hunt for the real killer under a new identity.
Curator’s note: A surprisingly experimental and underseen curio from the classic Hollywood era. It features one of the most beloved tinseltown pairings in Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, and a wonderful scenery-chewing turn from The Magnificent Amberson’s Agnes Moorhead. The deliciously thick noir atmosphere is amplified by the striking use of San Francisco locations (similarly to our other San Francisco-set film Invasion of the Body Snatchers), The bold choice of camerawork in the film’s first half will completely take you by surprise in its daringness for a 1940s studio picture.