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Tension


Distributor : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(1949 - 95 minutes)
Producer : Robert Sisk
Director : John Berry
Writer : Allen Rivkin, based on a story by John Klorer
Composer : André Previn
Cast :
Richard Basehart Warren Quimby
Audrey Totter Claire Quimby
Cyd Charisse Mary Chanler
Barry Sullivan Collier Bonnabel
Lloyd Gough Barney Deager

Plot :

Warren Quimby, a quiet, mild-mannered druggist, discovers that his wife Claire has a lover. Planning to kill them both, he creates a second identity to serve as an alibi. Using this new identity, he meets and falls in love with Mary, and decides not to go through with his plans. However, when he visits the beach house where his wife and her lover were staying, he finds that the lover has been murdered. All evidence soon points to Warren, who becomes the number one suspect in the case.


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