TENSION (FILM)

'''Tension''' is a 1950 crime thriller film, considered film noir. The film was shot in Culver City and Malibu, California.

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Plot

Featured cast

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Plot

A mousy drugstore manager, Warren Quimby (Richard Basehart), is married to sexy, man-hungry Claire (Audrey Totter). She leaves him for another man, Barney (Lloyd Gough). Quimby decides to murder the man. He devises a complex plan, which involves assuming a new identity, to make it look like someone else murdered Claire's new boyfriend but can't go through with the killing. Barney is instead murdered by another man but all the evidence points to Quimby.

Featured cast

Actor	Role
Richard Basehart	Warren Quimby/Paul Sothern
Audrey Totter	Mrs. Claire Quimby
Cyd Charisse	Mary Chanler
Barry Sullivan	Police Lt. Collier Bonnabel
Lloyd Gough	Barney Deager
Tom D'Andrea	Freddie, Coast to Coast Counter Man
William Conrad	Police Lt. Edgar 'Blackie' Gonsales
Tito Renaldo	Narco, Deager's Valet

External links

★ Film Noir of the Week review