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...couple of differences: the ?Black Angel? loser is a lover of the murder victim, and the woman avenger, Catherine (blond, charisma-challenged June Vincent), is his betrayed wife. When her schlub of a two-timing spouse is sent to jail for the murder of showgirl-vocalist Mavis Marlowe (Constance Dowling), Catherine tracks down Mavis? ex, a part-time songwriter, full-time drunk named Martin Blair (Dan Duryea). ?I had to see you,? she implores, and he snaps, ?Why? Because I had a wife who needed killing. And you had a husband who took care...
...Marty has a locked-room alibi - a pal had bolted the lush?s apartment door from the outside just before the murder was committed - and, as played by Duryea, is a sympathetic soul looking to redeem a promising life pissed away. He?s also falling in love with Catherine. So he joins forces with her as a pianist-singer duo at the nightclub of menacing Marko (Peter Lorre), who knew the dead woman. All this amateur sleuthing wins the initial contempt of detective Broderick Crawford, who snarls to Marty, ?You just gotta play detective. Do I go around playin? piano...
...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...
...wearing invisible shackles. His voiceover has the voluptuous tone of a bad dream, or bad pulp writing: ?It seemed as if my brain was handcuffed... My stomach was riding a roller coaster... I was scared sick.? The film stretches its minuscule budget with effects like showing murder in Vince?s eyes - literally: the camera closes in, Kelley?s eye sockets turn black and we see the nightmare killing in them. Writer-director Shane would remake this film in 1956 as ?Nightmare,? with Edward G. Robinson in the Kelley role. Apparently the same dream kept dogging Shane...
...Window, 1949 Screenplay by Mel Dinelli, from the 1947 story ?The Boy Cried Murder? / ?Fire Escape...