Beware, my lovely (1952) - little known film noir directed by Harry Horner, starring Ida Lupino and Robert Ryan
Rating 6.6/10
Runtime: 77 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Harry Horner
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044417/
Cast
Ida Lupino ... Mrs. Helen Gordon
Robert Ryan ... Howard Wilton
Taylor Holmes ... Mr. Walter Armstrong
Barbara Whiting ... Ruth Williams
James Willmas ... Mr. Stevens
O.Z. Whitehead ... Mr. Franks
Description: 1918. As Christmas is approaching and as her sole boarder, Walter Armstrong, has just left for the holidays for a few weeks, war widow Helen Gordon, whose house is a gathering point for many of the neighborhood children, decides to hire the man who came by looking for work to help her clean up her house. He is Howard Wilton, just arrived in town and who has done such odd jobs for housewives before. He is diligent in his work and personable at first. However, unknown to Helen, he is set off by an incident with Helen's spoiled niece, Ruth. Howard begins to display erratic behavior and it soon becomes clear to Helen that he is mentally unstable, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. During this increasing paranoia phase, he intimates to her that he sometimes has blackouts, during which he believes he has committed murder. Helen can see that those acts of murder probably were against those who turned against him and he seems to be searching for people to love him and not fear him. By this time Howard has locked Helen in the house keeping her captive against her will. Helen has to figure out a way to get help or get out of the house while keeping both herself and those that may come to the house, especially the neighborhood children, safe from Howard's potentially murderous hands.
Screens:
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Video and audio information:
Video : 1.56 GB, 2913 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 790x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 72/105 MB (main/commentary), 132/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AAC, CBR/CBR
Subtitles (English closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Italian, Czech) posters and screenshots included
Double audio track information
This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English, and the other is commentary by film historian Jason Ney. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)
