Réalisation:
Norman FosterPhotographie:
Hal MohrActeurs·trices:
Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks, Joan Shawlee, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ray Walker, Eddy Waller, Jeffrey Sayre (plus)Résumés(1)
En promenant son chien, Frank Johnson, un artiste raté, est témoin d’un meurtre. Recherché par la police et l’assassin, il décide de s’enfuir. Il laisse sa femme Eleanor seule et sans nouvelles. Même si son couple bat de l’aile depuis longtemps, la jeune femme, aidée d’un journaliste, se met à la recherche de son mari… (Elephant Films)
Critiques (1)
Enormously attractive, fully-fledged action (we are constantly moving forward, there are no superfluous scenes that break narrative coherence) that strikingly evokes curiosity and suspense by making the viewer the only fully-informed player throughout, while the characters approach the target, the escaped Frank, first in parallel, then converging impressively to a final point of revelation and explanation. All this is interspersed with humour (great dialogue shoot-outs) and extremely clever direction, which, in the "Hitchcock" way, doesn't let us peek under the hood (the final duel of who's who), but makes our imagination work and take the tension to much higher spheres... 85%
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