| Release Date: | May 1946 |
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| Genres: | Thriller / Crime / Film-Noir / Drama |
| Runtime: | 113 min |
| Cast: | Lana Turner (Cora Smith), John Garfield (Frank Chambers), Cecil Kellaway (Nick Smith), Hume Cronyn (Arthur Keats) Leon Ames (Kyle Sackett) Audrey Totter (Madge Gorland) Alan Reed (Ezra Liam Kennedy) Jeff York (Blair) |
Nick Smith, the middle-aged proprietor of a roadside restaurant, hires drifter Frank Chambers as a handyman. Frank eventually begins an affair with Nick's beautiful wife Cora, who talks Frank into helping her kill Nick, by "accident." But the best laid plans......