
Overview:
Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.Status: | Released (1948-03-18) |
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Awards: | 2 nominations |
Screen: | Jonathan Latimer, Kenneth Fearing, Harold Goldman |
Productions: | Paramount Pictures |
Production Countries: | United States of America |
Spoken Languages: | English, Italiano |

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- 7124: Ray Milland - George Stroud
- 10921: Charles Laughton - Earl Janoth
- 41516: Maureen O'Sullivan - Georgette Stroud
- 14564: George Macready - Steve Hagen
- 85358: Rita Johnson - Pauline York
- 2926: Elsa Lanchester - Louise Patterson
- 43821: Harold Vermilyea - Don Klausmeyer
Crews
- 50300: John Farrow - Director - Directing
- 81286: Jonathan Latimer - Screenplay - Writing
- 63051: Kenneth Fearing - Novel - Writing
- 30013: LeRoy Stone - Editor - Editing
- 8620: John F. Seitz - Director of Photography - Camera
- 85856: Albert Nozaki - Art Direction - Art
- 9858: Richard Maibaum - Producer - Production
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Reviews
John Chard
Review text:
How did I get into this rat race? Egomaniac publisher Earl Janoth (Charles Laughton) murders his mistress in a fit of temper. He then uses all his power and connections to pin the crime on another man seen close to the crime. George Stroud (Ray Milland), editor of Janoth's own C ....
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