A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
Impact 1949 HD by Arthur Lubin | Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines | Noir Film
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Wealthy businessman survives an attempt by wife to have him killed, makes it look like she succeeded and starts a new life in a small town as an auto mechanic. Variation on idea elevated to noir importance by The Killers (1946), where victim of femme fatale tries to abandon the city and his past identity.” – noir expert Spencer Selby
Impact is a 1949 film noir drama directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Brian Donlevy and Ella Raines. It was filmed entirely in California and included scenes filmed at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco, California, and other locations around the city. The film was based on a story by film noir writer Jay Dratler. The supporting cast features Charles Coburn, Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn and William Wright (actor).
Plot
Millionaire industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) has a young wife, Irene (Helen Walker), who is trying to kill him with the help of her young lover, Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett). The plan falls apart when Williams survives a hit on the head from the would-be killer. Attempting to flee the scene in Williams’ convertible, Torrance dies in a fiery head-on collision. The body is identified as Williams.
The wounded, dazed Williams ends up in the fictional small town of Larkspur, Idaho (filmed in Larkspur, California). He gets a job as a service station mechanic and falls in love with Marsha (Ella Raines), the station’s owner. Meanwhile, the police arrest Williams’ wife for his “murder.” After Marsha eventually persuades Walter to go back to clear his wife, he is charged with murdering Torrance. Marsha enlists the help of kindly police detective Quincy (Charles Coburn) to prove Walter’s innocence.
Cast
- Brian Donlevy as Walter Williams
- Ella Raines as Marsha Peters
- Charles Coburn as Lt. Tom Quincy
- Helen Walker as Irene Williams
- Tony Barrett as Jim Torrance
- Anna May Wong as Su Lin
- Robert Warwick as Capt. Callahan
- Philip Ahn as Ah Sing
- William Wright (actor) as the prosecutor
- Tom Greenway as Moving Van Driver
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