Movie
The Dark Past
Overview
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
Details
- Release date
- 1948-12-22
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Columbia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- William Holden as Al Walker
- Nina Foch as Betty
- Lee J. Cobb as Dr. Andrew Collins
- Adele Jergens as Laura Stevens
- Stephen Dunne as Owen Talbot
- Lois Maxwell as Ruth Collins
- Berry Kroeger as Mike
- Steven Geray as Prof. Fred Linder
- Wilton Graff as Frank Stevens
- Robert Osterloh as Pete
- Kathryn Card as Nora
- Charles Cane as Sheriff (uncredited)
Crew
- Rudolph Maté - Director
- Philip MacDonald - Writer
- Michael Blankfort - Writer
- Albert Duffy - Writer
More like this
M
Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods decide to help find the murderer as quickly as possible.
They Made Me a Fugitive
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
The Glass Key
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Whirlpool
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Time Without Pity
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
The Naked City
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
The Web
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
Witness to Murder
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Sleep, My Love
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
Nightfall
An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.