George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.

• DirectorJohn Farrow
• Release18 March 1948
• Genre
  Crime / Thriller
• Duration1h 35m
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  7.251
  175 reviews
• Productions

  Paramount Pictures