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A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
Buck Russell
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film's title refers to both a series of mystery novels published in the 1940s by Simon & Schuster and a popular radio show adapted from the novels. The radio version ran from 1941 to 1952, and produced more than 500 episodes. The same material had been the source of a series of low-budget movies produced by Universal Pictures in the early 1940s.
- GoofsDunlap incorrectly quotes "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink". The actual lines are "Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink."
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Jean Maxwell: You're pretty awful. You're even too bad for me.
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Inner Sanctum (1948)
A short, bizarre, surprisingly captivating film. It's totally Twilight Zone when you get to the last two minutes, so hang in there for the hour before that. It has a noir quality that makes it moody, and it has some truly artsy expressionist segments montaged in during the flood, partly as psychological metaphor. The director, Lew Landers, has an astonishing 100 plus movies and a lot of early television to his name, and I'm guessing there are some other sterling moments among them.
But for the moment we have Inner Sanctum. There is a candid, campy acting throughout that's fresh and entertaining, from the boy who's a convincing sweetie to the reporter who's a total bumbling hoot (watch him cheat at checkers). If it borders on deliberate comedy at times, it's more sustained by its tone of utter innocence among the townspeople, so they joke and make odd comments exactly the way real people would. The candid quality is at odds with the one rather stiff character, the lead man, who carries some kind of weight around beyond even his crime. Such is the film noir lead at its archetypal best, and this is from the height of post-war noir.
So, a great movie it isn't but a movie with great qualities it is. No joke.
A short, bizarre, surprisingly captivating film. It's totally Twilight Zone when you get to the last two minutes, so hang in there for the hour before that. It has a noir quality that makes it moody, and it has some truly artsy expressionist segments montaged in during the flood, partly as psychological metaphor. The director, Lew Landers, has an astonishing 100 plus movies and a lot of early television to his name, and I'm guessing there are some other sterling moments among them.
But for the moment we have Inner Sanctum. There is a candid, campy acting throughout that's fresh and entertaining, from the boy who's a convincing sweetie to the reporter who's a total bumbling hoot (watch him cheat at checkers). If it borders on deliberate comedy at times, it's more sustained by its tone of utter innocence among the townspeople, so they joke and make odd comments exactly the way real people would. The candid quality is at odds with the one rather stiff character, the lead man, who carries some kind of weight around beyond even his crime. Such is the film noir lead at its archetypal best, and this is from the height of post-war noir.
So, a great movie it isn't but a movie with great qualities it is. No joke.
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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