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A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Robert Mitchum
- Fred Graham
- (as Bob Mitchum)
Milton Kibbee
- Charlie
- (as Milt Kibbee)
Lee 'Lasses' White
- Old Man
- (as Lee White)
Fred Aldrich
- Police Detective
- (uncredited)
Lennie Bluett
- Dancer at Big Jims
- (uncredited)
Marie Bryant
- Dancer in Big Jims
- (uncredited)
William Castle
- Man in Photograph Given to Police.
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaThe cut between a screaming woman discovering a body and a whistling locomotive is a direct steal from Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935).
- GoofsIn the movie, the famous Bleecker Street of Manhattan's Greenwich Village is misspelled as Bleeker.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Stars of the Silver Screen: Robert Mitchum (2013)
- SoundtracksBoogie Woogie
(uncredited)
Music by Lorenzo Flennoy
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A tight, tense little thriller that helped consolidate the noir cycle
Like My Name is Julia Ross, another quick-and-dirty damsel-in-distress movie, When Strangers Marry helped lay down the blueprints for what would come to be called film noir. Kim Hunter has just wed a patron (Dean Jagger) of the restaurant where she waited tables without knowing much about him; off on a vague business trip, he asks her to meet him at a New York hotel. His evasive actions are enough to raise suspicions even in a naive Ohio gal like her -- he makes her wander the streets of wartime Greenwich Village at night (as she did a year earlier in Val Lewton's The Seventh Victim). An old man-pal (the very young Robert Mitchum) happens to turn up to keep an eye on her strange marriage in the big bad city. But there are recurring links to the silk-stocking murder of a businessman in Philadelpia a few days before.... William Castle, best known as a 1950s schlockmeister (13 Ghosts, et al.) shows himself to be a keen apprentice here: There's a scene involving a glass-paned hotel mail chute that is almost Hitchcockian.
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- Nov 5, 2001
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- Budget
- $50,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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