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Stage Fright

1950 • 1h 50m •
Thriller
MOVIEVIBE Rating
★ 6.8/10
378 reviews
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Stage Fright

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

"Love held its breath as sudden terror held the stage!"

Top Billed Cast

Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman
Eve Gill
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Charlotte Inwood
Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding
Det. Insp. Wilfried 'Ordinary' Smith
Richard Todd
Richard Todd
Jonathan Cooper
Alastair Sim
Alastair Sim
Commodore Gill
Sybil Thorndike
Sybil Thorndike
Mrs. Gill
Kay Walsh
Kay Walsh
Nellie Goode
Miles Malleson
Miles Malleson
Mr. Fortesque

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C CinemaSerf Verified TMDB Critic
2022-12-27

Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich head a strong cast in this tense, enthralling Hitchcock adaptation of Selwyn Jepson's 1948 thriller "Man Running" about an acting student (Wyman) who shelters her fellow student Richard Todd - with whom she is in love - from police investigating the murder of his mistress (Dietrich's) husband. Still with me? Well, add a superb Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh and Michael Wilding and we are off on quite a complex mystery with plenty of twists and turns - and quite a bit of humour. If a little bit long, it is still well worth watching....