A King Brothers Production. Copyright 19 August 1944 by Monogram Pictures Corp. New York opening in November 1944 at the Brooklyn Strand (which meant no New York opening so far as most critics were concerned). U.S. release: 21 August 1944. U.K. release through Pathé: 9 April 1945. Australian release through British Empire Films: 6 May 1945. 6,169 feet. 68 minutes.
Re-issue title (with Mitchum top-billed): BETRAYED.
SYNOPSIS: Worried when her new husband, Paul, forces her to go into hiding with him, Millie Baxter is further frightened when her loyalty makes her flee with him from the law. Police Detective Blake (Neil Hamilton), involved in the case, becomes suspicious of Millie's ex-boyfriend, Fred, and decides that he knows more of the crime than he has divulged. Discovered and arrested, Paul admits that he was at a bar in Philadelphia where the murdered man was last seen alive.
COMMENT: A classic B-grade thriller, William Castle's second film as a full director (he was previously a dialogue director) shows a great deal of promise, which, alas, was never exceeded in his later films. Though already, he shows his predilection for a "gimmick" in this case the casting of inexperienced Robert Mitchum in a key role.
Castle's tendency to imitate the successes of other directors is also on display, in this case Hitchcock's screaming cleaning woman over the whistle of a train.
Ira Morgan's superb photography contributes a great deal to the mood and the art direction is suitably drab.
SYNOPSIS: Worried when her new husband, Paul, forces her to go into hiding with him, Millie Baxter is further frightened when her loyalty makes her flee with him from the law. Police Detective Blake (Neil Hamilton), involved in the case, becomes suspicious of Millie's ex-boyfriend, Fred, and decides that he knows more of the crime than he has divulged. Discovered and arrested, Paul admits that he was at a bar in Philadelphia where the murdered man was last seen alive.
COMMENT: A classic B-grade thriller, William Castle's second film as a full director (he was previously a dialogue director) shows a great deal of promise, which, alas, was never exceeded in his later films. Though already, he shows his predilection for a "gimmick" in this case the casting of inexperienced Robert Mitchum in a key role.
Castle's tendency to imitate the successes of other directors is also on display, in this case Hitchcock's screaming cleaning woman over the whistle of a train.
Ira Morgan's superb photography contributes a great deal to the mood and the art direction is suitably drab.