- Thriller
- 86 min
- NR
SUSPENSE...SUSPICION...MAN-WOMAN DESIRES!
Unhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he'll be free to marry her sister.
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Grave, spare, earnest and bleak.
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- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jan 20147/10
You see, Doctor Hamilton belongs to the Freudian school of psychology, he believes that love rather than money is the root of all evil. Conflict is directed by Curtis Bernhardt and collectively written by Arthur T. Horman, Dwight Taylor, Robert Siodmak and Alfred Neumann. It stars Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake and Grant Mitchell. Music is by Frederick Hollander and cinematography by Merritt B. Gerstad. Still under exposed after all these years, Conflict is deserving of reappraisals by the film noir crowd. Plot has Richard Mason (Bogart) stuck in a loveless marriage to Kathryn (Hobart), with his misery further compounded by the fact he’s in love with his sister-in-law, Evelyn (Smith). Finally having enough, Richard murders his wife and intends to woo the younger Evelyn into his life. However, when Richard starts glimpsing his wife out in the city and little items of hers start turning up, Richard starts to doubt his own mind. In essence it’s a psychological thriller spiced with German Expressionism, perhaps unsurprising given that Bernhardt and Siodmak are key components of the production. The psychoanalysis angle played out would of c
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Cast
- Humphrey BogartRichard Mason
- Alexis SmithEvelyn Turner
- Sydney GreenstreetMark Hamilton
- Rose HobartKathryn Mason
- Charles DrakeNorman Holsworth
- Grant MitchellDr. Grant
- Patrick O'MooreEgan
- Ann ShoemakerNora Grant
- Edwin StanleyPhillips (uncredited)
- Frank WilcoxFreston (uncredited)
Crew
- Curtis BernhardtDirector
- Dwight TaylorScreenplay
- Arthur T. HormanScreenplay
- Merritt B. GerstadDirector of Photography
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
- David WeisbartEditor
- William JacobsProducer
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