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Sudden Fear is a american film of genre Drama directed by David Miller released in USA on 7 august 1952 with Jack Palance

Sudden Fear (1952)

Sudden Fear
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Released in USA 7 august 1952
Length 1h50
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Noir
Rating74% 3.746233.746233.746233.746233.74623

Sudden Fear Is a 1952 American thriller film noir directed by David Miller, and starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance in a tale about a successful woman who marries a murderous man. The screenplay by Lenore J. Coffee and Robert Smith was based upon the novel of the same name by Edna Sherry.

Synopsis

Myra Hudson (Crawford) is a successful Broadway playwright who rejects Lester Blaine (Palance) as the lead in her new play. Later, she meets Lester on a train bound for San Francisco, is swept off her feet, and, after a brief courtship, marries him.

Actors

Jack Palance

(Lester Blaine)
Joan Crawford

(Myra Hudson Blaine)
Gloria Grahame

(Irene Neves)
Mike Connors

(Junior Kearney)
Virginia Huston

(Ann Taylor)
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