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"Wealthy businessman survives attempt by wife to have him killed, makes it look like she succeeded and starts a new life in small town as auto mechanic.
Variation on idea elevated to noir importance by The Killers (1946), where victim of femme fatale tries to abandon the city and his past identity." - noir expert Spencer Selby
Date : 1949
Cast : Brian Donlevy as Walter Williams
Ella Raines as Marsha Peters
Charles Coburn as Lt.
Tom Quincy
Helen Walker as Irene Williams
Tony Barrett as Jim Torrance
Anna May Wong as Su Lin
Robert Warwick as Capt.
Callahan
Philip Ahn as Ah Sing
William Wright (actor) as the prosecutor
Tom Greenway as Moving Van Driver
"Wealthy businessman survives attempt by wife to have him killed, makes it look like she succeeded and starts a new life in small town as auto mechanic.
Variation on idea elevated to noir importance by The Killers (1946), where victim of femme fatale tries to abandon the city and his past identity." - noir expert Spencer Selby
Date : 1949
Cast : Brian Donlevy as Walter Williams
Ella Raines as Marsha Peters
Charles Coburn as Lt.
Tom Quincy
Helen Walker as Irene Williams
Tony Barrett as Jim Torrance
Anna May Wong as Su Lin
Robert Warwick as Capt.
Callahan
Philip Ahn as Ah Sing
William Wright (actor) as the prosecutor
Tom Greenway as Moving Van Driver