Dir. Tay Garnett · Starring John Garfield, Lana Turner, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter · Music George Bassman
“Their Love was a Flame that Destroyed!”
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A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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A simmering, fatalistic noir where dangerous desire ignites a spiral of betrayal and murder. The air hangs thick with smoke, secrets, and the intoxicating, doomed pull of forbidden love.
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