![]() Mitchum does a fairly credible job as a man operating in a vacuum and beset by unfortunate circumstances. ![]() And thus begins a series of adventures on his flight to escape which leads him at last to realize that one should always inform the police. Reception Contemporary critical response īosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote, "Fogged a bit by several strong drinks and a couple of blows on the head, our hero does not obey his instinct but goes rushing off with the lady into the night. James Mullenbach, a hospital associate of Jeff's Billy House as Bogardus, the Postville justice of the peace.Charles Kemper as Postville Police Chief.While in hospital recovering, Jeff asks his doctor, "Can I send flowers to San Francisco?" The doctor says, "I think so," steps out into the hall and sends Julie in to see him. The police consider Jeff an accomplice to Lannington's murder, but before she dies she not only says she acted alone, but that Jeff "didn't even have sense enough to know." The police return fire, fatally wounding her. When Margo sees him coming she pulls her pistol out of her purse and starts shooting at him. He drags himself downstairs and to the border crossing. When he tries to stop Margo from leaving she knocks him down and then smothers him, however, he is only rendered unconscious. He realizes that Margo is mentally unstable and that she killed her husband and decides not to go to Mexico. As they wait, Jeff's left side becomes paralyzed. Seeing they are anxious to avoid the police, he sends them to theater owner Milo DeLong ( Philip Van Zandt), who offers to smuggle them into Mexico for $1,000. In a border town, the fugitives sell Margo's $9,000 bracelet to a pawnbroker for $1,000. It is revealed that Lannington was smothered to death with a pillow. After the couple sneaks away, the police chief identifies Margo from a photograph and alerts the border patrol. In their honeymoon suite, Margo hears a radio broadcast about them that discloses she had been undergoing psychiatric treatment. After Margo claims they are on their way to Mexico to get married, the police chief ( Charles Kemper) tells them marriages are a Postville specialty and insists they get wed there. In Postville, Arizona, they are taken to the sheriff, but only because Jeff is not wearing a beard for the town's "Wild West Whiskers Week". Jeff diagnoses his continuing headaches and mental fog as a concussion, warning Margo that it will lead to first paralysis of the extremities, followed by a coma within 24 to 48 hours. They decide to drive to Mexico instead, taking the precaution of trading in Margo's convertible for a pickup truck provided by larcenous used car salesman "Honest Hal". They first try to use the airline tickets, but spot policemen at the ticket desk. Capitalizing on the fact that Jeff's judgment is impaired by his injuries and naïvety, she persuades him to run away with her. Jeff wants to call the police, but Margo insists they would believe it was murder. Dazed, Jeff goes to the bathroom when he returns, he finds the man dead. In the ensuing struggle, Lannington is knocked down and strikes his head on the floor and falls unconscious. Lannington beats Jeff with a fireplace poker. The naïve Jeff decides to get involved in the domestic dispute. When he hears a scream, he returns and finds her holding an earring ripped from her ear. A stunned Jeff leaves despite Margo's pleas. Lannington informs him that Margo is his wife. Told she is flying to Nassau with her aged father the next day, a tipsy Jeff shows up unannounced and boldly tells Frederick Lannington (Rains) that he is in love with the man's daughter. The doctor falls in love with Margo and they begin seeing one another. He breaks a date with his nurse girlfriend, Julie ( Maureen O'Sullivan), because he is worried Margo may try to commit suicide again. To his surprise, he finds she lives in a mansion. She signs herself out of the hospital, but sends a telegram inviting him to meet her. Jeff Cameron (Mitchum) treats a mentally disturbed attempted suicide victim (Domergue). Where Danger Lives is a 1950 film noir thriller directed by John Farrow and starring Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue and Claude Rains.ĭr.
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