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...picture offers an unusual approach from the start, because the sympathy is with the guilty pair, Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson) and Alice Reed (Joan Bennett...
Johnson starts his story like a batter lazily warming up. Professor Wanley (Edward G. Robinson), a humdrum family man, stops on the way to his club to gaze at a glamorous portrait in a gallery window. When the portrait's model (Joan Bennett) turns up and they fall into conversation, the professor feels he is on the brink of adventure. Throwing caution to the winds, he goes to her apartment-quite literally to look at etchings. But when the girl's lover bursts in and attacks him, Wanley in self-defense stabs him to death with a pair...
From that moment, neither Wanley nor the girl nor the audience know a moment's peace. The professor's decision to dispose of the body and his meticulous efforts to obliterate all trace of the murder make a tale that hovers on the edge of panic. Resolving to be cool and sensible, Wanley commits every blunder in the books. With the body crumpled in the back of his car he very nearly gets arrested for driving through a red light. At the parkway tollgate he manages to drop his dime in the road. As he fumbles for another...
Finally arrived at the sanctuary of his club, the professor is seized upon by his closest crony, the District Attorney (Raymond Massey). To entertain Wanley, who seems distracted, the D. A. regales him with the developments of the sensational new murder. Detail by detail the professor is forced to listen to a relentless but far-from-boring reconstruction, from footprints, spots of blood and bits of hair, of the crime he has committed...
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