Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1944
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Genres
Film noir Thriller
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Once off Guard Working
Synopsis
A respectable married professor is alone in the city for the summer while his family are away. He agrees to meet his friends (including the District Attorney) at their club each evening. One night as he admires a painting in a gallery window near the club, the woman who posed for the portrait turns up, always happy to see someone admiring the picture. They get talking and soon the professor is involved in sinister situation from which he endeavours to free both himself and the woman. But the District Attorney is investigating the matter and the professor fears the truth will catch up with him.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Professor Richard Wanley
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Alice Reed
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Frank Lalor
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Dr Michael Barkstane
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Heidt, bodyguard/Dick, doorman
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Inspector Jackson
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Mrs Wanley
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Claude Mazard/'Frank Howard
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steward
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[Elsie Wanley]
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[Dickie Wanley]
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[man in front of art gallery]
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[man in front of art gallery]
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[garageman]
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[garage helper]
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[traffic officer]
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[man in taxi]
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[man in taxi]
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[toll collector]
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[motorcycle officer]
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[radio announcer]
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[newsreel cameraman]
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[boy scout]
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[druggist]
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[Lalor's chauffeur]
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[Captain Kennedy]
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[elevator operator]
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[elevator operator]
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[elevator operator]
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[elevator operator]
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[woman at elevator]
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[child at elevator]
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[stenographer]
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[stenographer]
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[police driver]
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[Flynn]
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[street walker]
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[magazine glamour model]
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[news vendor]
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[club manager]
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[headwaiter]
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[steward]
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[steward]
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[pageboy]
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[pageboy]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[club member]
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[woman in nightclub]
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[blonde at the end]
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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[Assistant Director]
Production:
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©
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Production Company
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Producer
Writing:
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Written for the screen by
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Based on the novel 'Once Off Guard' by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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[2nd Camera]
Stills:
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[Stills]
Special Effects:
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Process Photography
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Special Effects
Editing:
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[Editorial Supervisor]
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Editor
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[Editor]
Design:
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Art Director
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Set Decorator
Costumes:
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Costumes
Music:
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Music
Sound:
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[Music Mixer]
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Sound
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[Re-recording/Effects Mixer]
Publicity:
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[Unit Publicist]
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