Danger Signal

Danger Signal
Danger Signal

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Robert Florey
Produced by William Jacobs
Screenplay by C. Graham Baker
Adele Comandini
Story by Phyllis Bottome
Starring Faye Emerson
Zachary Scott
Music by Adolph Deutsch
Cinematography James Wong Howe
Editing by Frank Magee
Distributed by Warner Bros.
Release date(s) November 14, 1945 (1945-11-14) (United States)
Running time 78 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Danger Signal is a 1945 film noir starring Faye Emerson and Zachary Scott. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Phyllis Bottome.[1]

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Plot

A mysterious artist, Ronnie Mason, steals a dead woman's wedding ring and money and leaves a fake suicide note. Her husband, Thomas Turner, believed his wife might have been seeing Mason behind his back.

Mason leaves town, changes his name to Marsh and rents a room in the house of Hilda Fenchurch and her younger sister Anne. To the consternation of professor Andrew Lang, who loves Hilda, she falls for Marsh, the new tenant.

The scheming Marsh learns that it is Anne who might inherit a great deal of money, so he suddenly switches his affections toward her. Hilda is jealous and suspicious. She plots to lure Marsh to a beach house and poison him. She isn't able to go through with it, but when Marsh runs off, he is surprised by Thomas Turner and plunges off a steep cliff to his death.

Cast

Critical reception

Bosley Crowther, the film critic for The New York Times, panned the film and wrote, "A woman scorned and a handsome cad whose romantic impulses fluctuate according to the size of a lovely lady's bank account are apt to do the strangest things, especially in diluted little melodramas such as Danger Signal, ...Sometimes, too, scenarists let such plots get out of hand and wander perilously close to boredom, so close, in fact, that the director resorts to one of those screeching-tire automobile races against time—and death—in what is obviously a last desperate attempt to overcome narrative anemia."[2]

Film critic Dennis Schwartz also was not complimentary, "This routine noir feature just doesn't cut it -- its story is too implausible and it lacks proper tension...The story simply didn't add up, but its quick pace helped move things along. Zachary Scott can always be counted on to give a competent performance. But nothing can save this film from mediocrity. It's a febrile attempt to study a psychopath."[3]

References

  1. ^ Danger Signal at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Crowther, Bosley. The New York Times, film review, November 22, 1945. Last accessed: February 8, 2010.
  3. ^ Schwartz, dennis. "Ozus' World Movie Reviews", film review, May 20, 2000. Last accessed: February 8, 2010.

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