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Stage Fright

"Love held its breath as sudden terror held the stage!"

6.8(339 votes)
1950
1h 50m
Thriller

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

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Production

Budget:$1,450,000
Revenue:$1,900,000
Companies:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Transatlantic Pictures

Languages

Original:en
Spoken:
English

Reviews

CinemaSerf

7/10

Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich head a strong cast in this tense, enthralling Hitchcock adaptation of Selwyn Jepson's 1948 thriller "Man Running" about an acting student (Wyman) who shelters her fellow student Richard Todd - with whom she is in love - from police investigating the murder of his mistress (Dietrich's) husband. Still with me? Well, add a superb Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh and Michael Wilding and we are off on quite a complex mystery with plenty of twists and turns - and quite a bit of humour. If a little bit long, it is still well worth watching.

12/27/2022

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