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Watch: Sudden Fear 1952 123movies, Full Movie Online – Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson’s new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn’t look like a “romantic leading man.” On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong…by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive? The answer brings on a game of cat and mouse; but who’s the cat and who’s the mouse?.
Plot: Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson’s new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn’t look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong…by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?
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Joan Crawford and Jack Palance both turn in strong performances in this dark tale of ambition and betrayal. Crawford is great portraying a middle-aged playwright who bumps Palance off a play she has written. On a train journey, however, they meet again and we start a sequence by which he ingratiates himself and marries her. Soon we discover that Palance has been in cahoots with girlfriend Gloria Grahame and they have desires on his new wife’s considerable fortune. When Crawford announces plans to leave much of her cash to charity; they hasten their plans but she finds out and devises a clever plan of her own. There is plenty of jeopardy, right until the end of this gripping, tense and superbly scored (by Elmer Bernstein) film noir.

You know what happened to Nietzsche?

Sudden Fear is directed by David Miller and adapted to screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee and Robert Smith from the novel written by Edna Sherry. It stars Joan Crawford, Jack Palance and Gloria Grahame. Music is by Elmer Bernstein and cinematography by Charles Lang Jr.

“Miss Hudson, in your own native city of San Francisco, there’s an art gallery in the Legion of Honor in which there’s an oil painting of Casanova. It’s quite obvious that you have never seen this painting. For your information, Miss Hudson, this is what Casanova looked like. He had big ears, a scar over one eye, a broken nose, and a wart on his chin, right here. I suggest, Miss Hudson, that when you return to San Francisco, you visit this gallery and see this painting!”

The above is the response Lester Blaine (Palance) gives to Broadway playwright Myra Hudson (Crawford) who has just rejected him for the lead role in her latest play on account of his looks. Later that day the pair meet up on a train heading for Frisco and Myra is swept off of her feet. They court and marry, but once finances come into play and Irene Neves (Grahame) arrives on the scene, something far more sinister begins to rear its head…

It takes a while to get going, but once Sudden Fear hits its stride it’s a suspenseful noirish delight. Filmed on locations in San Francisco and with Lang Junior bringing the chiaroscuro and Miller dabbling in deftly placed shadows and tracking cameras, there’s a visuality that’s vital to the edgy atmosphere of the story. It’s pretty obvious quite early on what is happening in the plotting but this never affects the suspense, Miller builds it slowly and then unleashes the chills at the midpoint, garnering top performances from the three principal players in the process. It’s ready made material for Crawford, where she gets to run through her repertoire of female emotions, while Palance enjoys playing the villain and Grahame slinks in to view in the way that only she can.

Some trimming of the running time wouldn’t have gone amiss, and some of Myra’s stamina powers in the final quarter stretch the faith a touch, but all told it’s a very good “woman in peril” noir that is crowned by a terrifically exciting ending. 7.5/10

In a superior suspense movie, and one of her last good roles, Crawford proves her mettle
Sudden Fear proves a doubly unexpected pleasure: As one of the more inventive and effective suspense thrillers of the 1950s, and as a Joan Crawford picture from her last decade of real stardom in which she pulls from the full fetch of her long-seasoned acting skills.

Crawford plays San Francisco heiress-turned-playwright Myra Hudson, in New York for rehearsals of her latest hit play, Half-Way to Heaven. Producer and director find their new leading man (Jack Palance) an ideal mouthpiece for dribbling out her syrupy dialogue. But Crawford, repelled by the alarmingly Cubist planes of his face, has him fired (the off-screen Palance had been burned badly in the war and underwent reconstructive surgery).

But on board a train back to California, she not-so-serendipitously meets up with him again. They have a drink, play gin rummy, and soon are sharing their histories under the night sky of the observation car. Now an “item,” they enter Crawford’s upscale social whirl until the crafty Palance plays his hard-to-get card. Crawford falls for the ploy and makes him her husband.

Enter Gloria Grahame, some nasty unfinished business of Palance’s from back east (`Kiss me – Kiss me hard’). These two schemers plan to wrest a hefty divorce settlement from Crawford, but when it seems that her will specifies otherwise, they move to Plan B. Thanks, however, to the elaborately clunky recording equipment the author has installed in her study, Crawford learns not only that her bridegroom loathes her but that he plans to murder her for her money. In this audacious and prolonged scene, Crawford remains wordless as the taped voices hiss and sputter out (`I know a way…I know a way…I know a way’), letting her extraordinary eyes do the acting (and reminding us that her career started in the silent era). But once her hysteria subsides, Crawford puts her writer’s wiles to work and starts some intricate plotting of her own….

Crawford starts out at her customary big-star wattage, that fan-magazine glamour which at this stage of her career had to be all but welded on. But as her illusory happiness crumbles, so does her armored facade. Pitiless closeups of her contorted, sweaty face show us the aging woman beneath the camouflage (and give a foreshock of her coming roles in fright films, particularly that other Hudson, Blanche, in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?). It was a courageous move for this notoriously vain and controlling actress; perhaps she recognized in Lenore Coffee’s script the last role (with the possible exception of Blanche) that would ever test her mettle. Her instincts were right. Sudden Fear is testament that, no, Crawford was more than the talentless, drunken witch her idle detractors would have us believe. Once again she did what was expected of her as a star, and what she did for vehicles far less promising than Sudden Fear: She carried the picture on her broad shoulders, unassisted by shoulder pads.

Trivia note: This movie marks the film debut of Mike (here, `Touch’) Connors, TV’s Mannix.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 50 min (110 min), 1 hr 44 min (104 min) (West Germany)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Film-Noir, Thriller
Director David Miller
Writer Lenore J. Coffee, Robert Smith, Edna Sherry
Actors Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 4 Oscars. 2 wins & 5 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,038 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm