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...Loretta Young is a Park Avenue widow who finds herself temporarily broke. She gets a scholarship to Pointer College, where she joins her pretty daughter (Betty Lynn) in pursuit of higher education and a youngish English professor (Van Johnson). With the help of the "Kissing Oak" and other standard campus props, Mother gets her man, and Betty gets compensation in the form of a stripling...
...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...
...Accused. Loretta Young as a guilt-ridden professor of psychology trying to outwit a smart cop; an expert thriller, with Robert Cummings and Wendell Corey (TIME...
...Accused (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is the story of a pretty Ph.D. (Loretta Young) who commits a murder in self-defense, and then almost falls in love with the detective (Wendell Corey) who is trying to pin the crime on her. The fact that Loretta is a professor of psychology, and thus knows about guilt complexes, does not make her terrified attempts at concealment any easier...
...plot-essentially a fast, exciting chase with psychological overtones-gives Loretta Young a chance to play a menaced heroine, a role that she does with high skill. Will murder out? Will the beautiful professor be mangled in the coils of her own guilt-or will she be stalked down by the smart, relentless detective? Her only escape seems to be offered by a handsome young lawyer (Robert Cummings) who loves her even when he begins to doubt her innocence. But Loretta is as thoroughly fascinated by the strategy of her accuser as she is by the fond advice of counsel...