Impact (1949)

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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 who is killed. When it develops that he is assumed to have also died in the accident, Walter changes his name and heads to a small town where no one knows him. Here he starts life all over again as a humble garage mechanic, falling in love with his boss Marsha Peters (Ella Raines) in the process. Disaster looms when detective Quincy (Charles Coburn) comes sniffing around; it seems that Lt. Quincy suspects the incognito Williams of murdering Torrance. To reveal any more would be giving the game away. Impact co-stars longtime favorite Anna May Wong, making her first screen appearance since 1942. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Starring:: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, (more)

Director(s):: Arthur Lubin

Format(s):: DVD
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Synopsis of Impact

Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 111 mins

Complete Cast of Impact

Brian Donlevy - Walter Williams
Charles Coburn - Lieutenant Quincy
Mae Marsh - Mrs. Peters
William Wright - District Attorney
Philip Ahn - Ah Sing
Raymond Bond
Mike Pat Donovan
Sheila Graham - Herself
Thomas Brown Henry
Joe Kirk - Hotel clerk
Mary Landa - Della
W.J. O'Brien
Sam Finn
Frank Pershing
Ruth Robinson - Apartment manager
Erskine Sanford - Dr. Bender
Ben Welden - Moving van helper
Will Wright - District Attorney

Ella Raines - Marsha Peters
Helen Walker - Irene Williams
Tony Barrett - Jim Torrance
Robert Warwick - Capt. Callahan
Art Baker - Defense attorney (Eldridge)
Harry V. Cheshire - Irene's Attorney
Joel Friedkin - Uncle Ben
Tom Greenway - Moving van driver
Hans Herbert - Station master
Clarence Kolb - Darcy
Martin Doric
Richard H. Gordon
Linda Johnson - Telephone operator
Jason Robards, Sr. - Judge
William H. Ruhl
Glenn Vernon - Ed
Anna May Wong - Su Lin

Director(s):: Arthur Lubin

Writer(s):: Dorothy Reid, Jay Dratler, Dorothy Davenport

Producer(s):: Leo C. Popkin

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	Rich B.

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Ella Raines was my wife's cousin, so I felt obligated to watch this movie about which I knew nothing. It was actually much better that I expected it to be. So inspight of some dialogue which would be considered a bit hokey by today's standards, this was an intersting movie about infidelity and murder. And, Ella was a real cutey in her day.

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