Directed by:
Michael CurtizScreenplay:
Ranald MacDougallCinematography:
Elwood BredellComposer:
Franz WaxmanCast:
Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter, Constance Bennett, Hurd Hatfield, Ted North, Fred Clark, Ray Walker, Nana Bryant, Harry Lewis, Bess Flowers (more)Plots(1)
Director Michael Curtiz masterfully tells the fictional story of radio host Alexander Grandison (Claude Rains) as derived from a novel by Charlotte Armstrong. Grandison spookily recites murder mysteries on his radio show, with intimate and excruciating details. The reason he's so good and popular is that some of the murders he presents really are his own. He kills one of his female workers, but her fiancée, Steven Francis Howard (Michael North), threatens to take revenge for her death. Howard tries to convince Grandison's niece, Matilda Frazier (Joan Caulfield), that he is her long-lost husband. Much mystery and intrigue follows. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Joan Caulfield
USA
Best movies:
The Unsuspected (1947)
Blue Skies (1946)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Claude Rains
UK
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Casablanca (1942)
Audrey Totter
USA
Best movies:
The Set-Up (1949)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
Constance Bennett
USA
Best movies:
The Unsuspected (1947)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Topper (1937)
Hurd Hatfield
USA
Best movies:
El Cid (1961)
The Manions of America (1981) (series)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Ted North
USA
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
Roxie Hart (1942)
Fred Clark
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
White Heat (1949)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Ray Walker
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Nana Bryant
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Harvey (1950)
Harry Lewis
USA
Best movies:
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Bess Flowers
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Rear Window (1954)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Jack Mower
USA
Best movies:
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
William H. O'Brien
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Graduate (1967)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
Walter Baldwin
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Douglas Kennedy
USA
Best movies:
Adventures of Don Juan (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Rory Mallinson
USA
Best movies:
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Spencer's Mountain (1963)
One Desire (1955)
Ray Montgomery
USA
Best movies:
White Heat (1949)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Charles Horvath
USA
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Spartacus (1960)
Larry Steers
USA
Best movies:
The Gold Rush (1925)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Love Crazy (1941)