The Big Bluff
Revealing! Startling! Searing!
1955 | 70m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | W. Lee Wilder |
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| Writer: | Fred Freiberger, Mindret Lord |
| Staring: |
| When a scheming fortune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expected, he and his lover make other plans to get her millions. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 05, 1955 |
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| Director: | W. Lee Wilder |
| Writer: | Fred Freiberger, Mindret Lord |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime, Thriller |
| Keywords | california, waitress, infidelity, alibi, heart disease, film noir, con artist, doctor, millionaire, policeman, marriage for money, art dealer, coroner, deceit, exotic dancer, jealous husband, companion, duplicity, medication investigation, latin |
| Production Companies | Planet Filmplays |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| John Bromfield | Ricardo De Villa |
| Martha Vickers | Valerie Bancroft |
| Robert Hutton | Dr. Peter Kirk |
| Rosemarie Stack | Fritzie Darvel (as Rosemarie Bowe) |
| Eve Miller | Marsha Jordan |
| Max Palmer | Det. Sgt. John Fullmer |
| Eddie Bee | Don Darvel |
| Robert Bice | Dr. Tom Harrison |
| Pierre Watkin | Mr. Winthrop |
| Mitchell Kowall | Coroner |
| George Conrad | Bell Boy |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Terry O. Morse | Editor |
| Fred Freiberger | Screenplay |
| W. Lee Wilder | Director |
| Mindret Lord | Story |
| Manuel Compinsky | Original Music Composer |
| Gordon Avil | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| W. Lee Wilder | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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This is quite a decent little crime noir with plenty of scheming and plotting from John Bromfield as "Ricardo De Villa"; a man married to a wealthy woman (Martha Vickers) with a terminal health condition. When her new found marital happiness starts to make things look a little better for the patient ... , however, the impatient husband and his also married lover decide they need to expedite the process before she finds anything out. The story is quite intriguing, there a few twists and turns and the performances are adequate (not brilliant). I suppose the moral is, if something looks too good to be true, it probably is - and older women need to be wary of gold-digging youngsters with pencil moustaches!