When a conservative middle-aged professor engages in a minor dalliance with a femme fatale, he is plunged into a nightmarish quicksand of blackmail and murder.
Directed by Fritz Lang.
Written by J.H. Wallis (novel) and Nunnally Johnson (written for the screen by).
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett and Raymond Massey.
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