LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Brian Donlevy: Helen Walker
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Synopsis: Though he doesn't know it at first, industrialist Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) shouldn't trust his wife Irene (Helen Walker) any farther than he can throw her. Irene schemes with her lover Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) to kill Walter in an "accidental" car crash. The plan fails, and it is Jim whoRead More
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Donlevy plays a wealthy, San Francisco engineering executive, Walter Williams, whose sultry, younger wife (played by Helen Walker) plots his murder with her paramour. Wong plays the Williams' maid. After the murder attempt fails and the wife's lover is killed in a flaming car wreck, the police (and everyone else) think that Mr. Williams is the one who died. (It was his car.) A heart-broken Williams, having learned of his wife's betrayal, decides to lay low in a small Idaho town as his wife is prosecuted for his murder. There he falls in love with a war widow (played by Ella Raines) who convinces him to go home and clear things up.
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Plenty of bad luck was the matter with Helen Walker, who plays Brian Donlevy's scheming, murderous wife. Pretty and intelligent, she moved quickly from Broadway to Hollywood, her career on the fast track. But in 1946 her luck changed when she was in a serious car accident. She came back from her injuries and managed an excellent performance in the dark and quirky
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Donlevy realizes that eventually he must return to San Francisco and face up to the responsibility of events spiraling around the machinations of Helen Walker. Raines insists on helping him, even after he ultimately is compelled to stand trial for "murder" for an alleged crime he never committed.
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