The Prowler (1951) (Cost of Loving)

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Directed by

Joseph Losey

Starring (View all)

Van Heflin
Webb Garwood

Evelyn Keyes
Susan Gilvray

John Maxwell
Bud Crocker

Katherine Warren
Grace Crocker

Emerson Treacy
William Gilvray

Madge Blake
Martha Gilvray

Wheaton Chambers
Doctor James

Robert Osterloh
Coroner

Written by

Hugo Butler
(screenplay)

Dalton Trumbo
screenplay

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10 years, 5 months ago at Dec 8 0:29

fernando

Rare for Hollywood standards. Losey in crash course with censorship. It´s imposible to wash the pasional adulterous, sick romance. Evelyn Keyes, ¡an underrated actress¡,barefeet says all about sex. The noirish tones are kinf of washed, maybe because of plain phto and supporting cast, and music. The end in ghost town Calico in hard to believe, but tolerable.

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Release date: 25 May 1951

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