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  • Oasis
  • Days with Blue
  • About an Intimate Matter
  • Between Two Lovers
  • Baby Jackfruit Baby Guava
  • Mermaid
  • Big Little Things
  • Black Church Bay
  • Camouflage
  • Dora
  • Eklipse
  • Girl Group
  • Give Me the Ball!
  • Leader (The)
  • Lesbian Lines
  • Lorca: Broken Voices
  • Love is Love
  • Marie Madeleine
  • Woman’s Life (A)
  • Nosotros
  • Queer Edward II
  • Safe Distance (A)
  • Tijuana, Todavía
  • Tropical Park
  • Margaritari
  • Birds in the Dark
  • Fugs Film!
  • Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (A)
  • Scott Kress Needs a Man
  • Trio (The)
  • Only Known to Us
  • Woman's Work (A)
  • Queerdos (The)
  • Call Me Queen
  • Papaya
  • Pain and the Power (The)
  • All God's Colors
  • Living Out Loud
  • Song of Hiawatha (The)
  • Haptic

Impact

Country: USA, Language: English, 111 mins

  • Director: Arthur Lubin
  • Writer: Dorothy Davenport; Jay Dratler
  • Producer: Joseph H. Nadel; Harry M. Popkin

CGiii Comment

Below average noir...from a gay director.


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The(ir) Blurb...

No-nonsense San Francisco industrial whiz Walter Williams's two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but Williams survives the attack and the lover is burned beyond recognition while driving Williams's car. Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving van And ends up in idyllic Larkspur, Idaho, where he tracks newspaper stories of his "death". While recuperating Williams falls in love with Marsha, the garage owner where he is working as a mechanic. But when Williams finally goes back to San Francisco to clear his wife who is suspected of killing Walter, he's tried for the lover's murder.

Cast & Characters

Brian Donlevy as Walter Williams;
Ella Raines as Marsha Peters;
Charles Coburn as Lt. Quincy;
Helen Walker as Irene Williams;
Anna May Wong as Su Lin;
Robert Warwick as Capt. Callahan;
Clarence Kolb as Darcy;
Art Baker as Defense Attorney;
William Wright as Prosecutor;
Mae Marsh as Mrs. King