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1949111 minUnited States
Film noirDrama
Video edition
YouTube
Original language
English
This copy runs
110:57
Subtitles
English

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Synopsis

A prosperous businessman survives an attempt on his life and realizes that his wife helped arrange it. Believed dead, he takes refuge in a small town and begins to imagine a different existence. The decision to return turns a story of personal reinvention into a struggle to establish what happened and who can be believed.

Cast

DirectorsArthur Lubin

Behind the scenes

The film was made in Northern California, using San Francisco and Bay Area locations. The visible local businesses and commercial signs drew attention from trade reviewers; their appearance documents the streets as well as supplying a setting for the crime story, without establishing that the placements were paid advertising.

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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.

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