A hypnotist offers to keep Ann Sutton’s secret. Soon she can’t trust her own memory.
1950 · Film noir · Psychological thriller · 97 minutes · Black and white
Synopsis
After she’s caught shoplifting, Ann Sutton accepts help from David Korvo, a smooth-talking hypnotist who offers to treat her in secret. When a woman is found murdered and Ann can’t account for her own movements, her husband and a police lieutenant must work out what happened that night.
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Film credits
Director and producer · Otto Preminger
Screenplay · Ben Hecht and Andrew Solt
Source novel · Methinks the Lady by Guy Endore
Cinematography · Arthur Miller
Editing · Louis Loeffler
Art direction · Lyle R. Wheeler and Leland Fuller
Studio and distributor · Twentieth Century-Fox
Production and film notes
The story came from Guy Endore’s novel Methinks the Lady, which was also one of the film’s working titles. The AFI Catalog dates the general release to January 1950. AFI Catalog
In Britain, Ben Hecht was credited as Lester Bartow. The AFI Catalog traces the change to a resolution by British cinema exhibitors against showing films associated with Hecht, following his public criticism of British policy in Palestine. AFI Catalog
Related films
The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950) · Another noir in which a murder investigation closes in on someone with a personal stake in the case.
Somewhere in the Night (1946) · Richard Conte also appears in this noir about a returning veteran piecing together his past.