Word: dinelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adapted by Mel Dinelli from his story and play, The Man, the movie is a pseudo-psychological thriller that succeeds in being more sedative than suspenseful. Ida Lupino, looking frail, suffers long and lugubriously, and moody Robert Ryan eventually seems more of a bore than a bogeyman...
Actress Young is seldom out of Director Tay Garnett's camera; her excellent acting almost turns Cause for Alarm! into a one-woman show. But a tight script by Mel (The Window) Dinelli and Producer Tom Lewis also contains rounded minor roles, unusually well played by Margalo Gillmore as a garrulous busybody and Irving Bacon as a footsore postman slogging toward his pension...
...Dinelli; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden) is young and very dangerous-a paranoiac with a persecution mania who comes to do a day's cleaning for a kindly, middle-aged widow. At first he cleans a little and complains a little. Then he slowly starts manifesting symptoms of mental disorder, conveying suggestions of physical violence. All the while he is also locking doors until the terrified housewife is completely his prisoner. The end is still some way off, but sufficiently gruesome when it comes...