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Jeopardy
She did it... because her fear was greater than her shame!
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
- Original title
- Jeopardy
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
John Chard
Sep 30, 2017 · via TMDB
Peligro! Jeopardy is directed by John Sturges and adapted to screenplay by Mel Dinelli from Maurice Zimm's radio play "A Question of Time". It stars Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker and Lee Aaker. Music is by Dimitri Tiomkin and cinematography by Victor Milner. Running just shy of 70 minutes, Jeopardy is a classic lesson in how to garner great suspense from a small cast and set-up. Beginning with jaunty music and the scene setting of a family of three off for a vacation, it's all Americana bliss, but it's not long before fate deals the family some bad cards and we land firmly in thriller territory. The dialogue is safe and assured, with the stars turning in rich characterisations as written, particularly a wonderfully oily Meeker as the villain of the piece. Though very much plein air as a production, a claustrophobic and fraught air grips the play and drags the viewer in wholesale, a sense of cruel luck, danger and ironies hold things in a noir realm. While a turn of events in the narrative is deftly played, the sub-text shattering to the point we don't need to see it to feel it. Unfortunately some irritants stop it from hitting the top end of the scale. Daft ironies and highly improbable contrivances chip away at the pic's other strengths, one scene has the son (Aaker) trapped on a dilapidated pier, to which his dad calls out "stay right where you are", I mean really, what else was the lad going to do?! Some crude back projection work also dampens down some otherwise nice production touches (Calif locales just lovely), while the ending kinda dilutes a previous moral kicker. But irritants aside, this holds its head up high as a picture well worth investing time in. 7.5/10
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Barbara Stanwyck
Helen Stilwin
Barry Sullivan
Doug Stilwin
Ralph Meeker
Lawson the Fugitive
Lee Aaker
Bobby Stilwin
Rico Alaniz
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Salvador Baguez
Officer at 1st Roadblock (uncredited)
Paul Fierro
Mexican Lieutenant
Sol Gorss
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Margarita Martín
Mexican Mother (uncredited)
Charles Stevens
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Ken Terrell
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Juan Torena
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Natividad Vacío
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Cedric Gibbons
Art Direction
Edwin B. Willis
Set Decoration
Helen Rose
Costume Designer
William Tuttle
Makeup Artist
A. Arnold Gillespie
Special Effects
John Sturges
Director
Charles Schnee
Executive Producer
Dimitri Tiomkin
Original Music Composer
Douglas Shearer
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Mar 30, 1953
