Where Danger Lives
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| Where Danger Lives | |
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 Where Danger Lives movie poster |
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| Directed by | John Farrow |
| Produced by | Irving Cummings Jr. |
| Written by | Charles Bennett (screenplay) Leo Rosen (story) |
| Starring | Robert Mitchum Faith Domergue |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Nicholas Musuraca |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures Inc. |
| Release date(s) | July 14, 1950 (U.S. release) |
| Running time | 82 min. |
| Language | English |
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Where Danger Lives is a 1950 film drama directed by John Farrow. The film was actress Faith Domergue, at the time the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, film debut.
Margo (Faith Domergue) is the wife of Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains), an apparently sadistic elderly millionaire. Jeff Cameron (Robert Mitchum) is a man who falls in love with Margo when she was brought into a hospital after attempting suicide. He becomes romantically involved with her without knowing that she's married.
During a drunken confrontation with the jealous Frederick, the young doctor knocks the older man out and stumbles out of the room. When Jeff returns, he discovers that the man he hit is dead. Margo had smothered her husband during Cameron's absence, but she instead tells Jeff that he is the killer. The lovers flee to Mexico, where Jeff finally figures out that his crazy female companion is the real killer.
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[edit] Reaction
Dave Kehr writing for the Chicago Reader notes "Director John Farrow nicely hits the nightmarish, hallucinatory qualities in this standard film noir plot: Mitchum spends the last half of the film barreling down the dirt roads of southern California with a brain concussion, passing out periodically and waking up surrounded by some of the bleakest scenery America has to offer." [1]
[edit] Featured cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Robert Mitchum | Dr. Jeff Cameron |
| Faith Domergue | Margo Lannington |
| Claude Rains | Frederick Lannington |
| Maureen O'Sullivan | Julie Dawn |
| Charles Kemper | Postville Police Chief |
[edit] Quote
"Noboby pities me!" Margo Lannington
[edit] See also
Angel Face is a film noir with a similar theme, also starring Robert Mitchum.
