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Synopsis: A woman wanders the streets of Los Angeles in some sort of emotional distress. She is also under some delusion as she approaches many men, strangers who she calls "David". Eventually, an ambulance is called, the attendants who take her to the hospital, where she is eventually placed in the psychiatric ward. Placing her under some medication to help her remember, Dr. Harvey Willard, the psychiatrist on duty, is able to get some semblance of a story out of her over the ensuing days. This phase of her life begins just over a year ago when she, single RN Louise Howell, is under the employ of wealthy Dean Graham to take care of his chronically ill and largely bedridden wife, Pauline Graham, at their lake house outside of Washington, DC. Due to her circumstances, Pauline believes that Dean and Louise are carrying on an affair behind her back. Louise can see that Dean does have feelings for her that way in his loneliness. The "David" in question is David Sutton, a civil engineer who lives acr
Director(s): Curtis Bernhardt
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
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Year:
1947
108 min
365 Views


Hello, Charlie. Hold on a minute.

When could you leave for Canada?

Tonight, tomorrow, anytime.

Charlie, do you know anything

about an engineer named Sutton?

David Sutton.

Do you think he'd be a good man

for the Lac du Pont project?

Start packing.

Louise.

Where are you, Louise?

I'm ready to go down.

Hello.

Hello, Louise.

David, I want to talk to you.

- All right. But does it have to be here?

- Here, now.

- What is it?

- I tried to get you on the phone last night.

I tried again this morning,

but you weren't at home.

I was home.

Then you wouldn't answer

because you knew it was me.

- David, we have no reason to quarrel.

- I agree completely.

I don't know why you're angry with me.

- I'm not angry.

- Please let me finish.

Whatever it is I've done,

or you think I've done...

I really haven't done anything,

David, but whatever it is, I'm sorry.

You have nothing to be sorry for,

you haven't done anything.

I've been thinking about us all night.

I couldn't sleep.

It's awful to lie down at night

and not be able to sleep.

But I do know that we can work things out.

I'll do anything you say, David,

just as long as we're together.

That's all I want.

- David, why can't we be together?

- I told you why last night.

Louise, don't hang on to me.

You'll get hurt.

You're in love with someone else,

aren't you?

There isn't anybody else.

Don't please read hidden meanings

into everything I say.

If I were in love with anybody else,

believe me, I'd tell you.

There is another woman, I know it.

Otherwise why should you suddenly

decide to go off to Canada?

How did you know about Canada?

You didn't think I'd find out,

did you? But I did, I listened.

I listened at the door.

Do you see the things you make me do?

I'll do anything because

I don't care anymore.

You can't go away without me, David.

I won't let you. I'll find a way.

I'll lie if I have to, but I'll find a way.

David, I didn't mean that. I don't know

why I ever said such a thing.

David, I'm sorry. Please don't be angry.

David, listen to me. You mustn't treat me

this way. Don't leave me.

Take me with you. David!

David...

where are you?

Don't leave me.

Now, try and be calm.

Tell me, how did you feel when he left you?

What were you thinking?

He did it deliberately, to humiliate me.

He even pretended it was because

I was too much in love with him.

But he didn't fool me any.

He planned it that way.

They all knew about it.

Dean...

his wife, Pauline, the others.

They all did it deliberately.

Just to make me feel miserable.

To make me...

like this.

Try and rest a while.

Try not to think of anything.

Do you notice the beginnings

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Silvia Richards

Silvia Richards was a screenwriter who worked on a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s, including the film noir Ruby Gentry and the Western Rancho Notorious. She also wrote for television in the 1950s and early 1960s. more…

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