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...next one, the drummer Cliff (Elisha Cook Jr.), has a yen for hot jazz, fast women and funny cigarettes. Carol catches his wild eye with a perfunctory kiss or two and the promise that ?I?m a hep kitten!? In a jam session with other sweating, hopped-up jazzmen - the film?s most famous scene - Cliff beats the skins in a masturbatory delirium. She accompanies him back to his seedy apartment, gives him another kiss and a brief lap-sit and ankles when he admits he was paid...
...suspense came from its withholding of the news that [SPOILER ALERT] Scott?s upper-class friend Jack Marlow is the killer. You can?t obscure the star till the end of the movie, so Schoenfeld and Siodmak don?t waste time trying. From the moment Marlow (Franchot Tone) enters Cliff?s dingy digs and mutters, ?What a place. You can feel the rats in the walls,? he has pearly psychopath written all over him. Especially his hands, which poke out of the shadows into harsh light. ?How interesting a pair of hands can be,? Marlow muses, as Cliff sits petrified...
...wakes to find evidence indicating he really is a murderer. Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley in his movie debut, 19 years before he became ?Bones? McCoy on ?Star Trek?) has memories of a mirrored room and a woman watching as he strangles a man. Vince?s policeman brother-in-law Cliff (Paul Kelly, who looks like the seediest possible Johnny Carson), refuses to take his complaint seriously: ?If you want me to arrest you for murdering a man in your dream, well ... I?m off-duty when I?m dreamin...
...Vince finds a house, and a mirrored room, that resembles his dreamscape; and Cliff learns that a murder was recently committed there. This being a thriller, they have to stay there to discover that the murderer was [SPOILER] a cuckolded husband who hypnotized Vince to kill the man she was fooling around with. Vince still isn?t sure if he did it: ?I?ve got an innocent man?s conscience in a killer?s body...
...Illinois’ No. 2 Alex Tirapelle, who decisioned Jantzen 11-4 in the semifinal bout. The drop pitted Jantzen against Missouri’s No. 10 Kenny Burleson in the consolation match, which Jantzen won 6-4, turning in his second straight third-place finish at the Cliff Keen Invitational...