Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Antonius Block There's nothing too special here, but it's an entertaining enough noir. Audrey Totter plays a materialistic woman cheating on her pharmacist husband (Richard Basehart), a nice guy who is crushed when she leaves him for another man. He assumes an alter ego based on a brand new technology (contact lenses!), and plots revenge. Along the way he meets a nice girl (Cyd Charisse), who puts a delightful wrinkle in his plans. Totter has a wonderfully strong edge in this film, scheming and openly defiant of her husband. The scene where she appears with eyes flashing in the mirror is probably the film's strongest. Unfortunately the rest of the cast don't keep up with her. Barry Sullivan is reasonably strong as the detective, as is William Conrad as his sidekick, but he lacks a little in the 'tough guy' department. I liked seeing Charisse who has such a fresh face and is so likeable, but I'm not sure how deep her character or performance was. Other than Totter, there's just something missing, some grit or hardness, which prevents this from being a very good or great film. Also, quite a bit of the rest of the plot is telegraphed, and without a lot of subtlety. As for direction, it's decent, and the shots in the pharmacy and the street outside of it are good, as there is so much detail in the entire frame during these scenes. There was also something that was interesting about seeing a more obscure, 'B' film noir, which never committed any major errors, even if it didn't hit any homeruns.

Claudio Carvalho The timid pharmacist Warren Quimby (Richard Basehart) works hard in the night shift of a drugstore to give a good life to his promiscuous wife Claire Quimby (Audrey Totter). When Claire leaves him to live with her lover, the liquor salesman Barney Deager (Lloyd Gough), Warren plots a scheme to kill Barney. He creates a new identity of a man called Paul Sothern and moves during the weekends to an apartment, telling that he is a traveling salesman to explain the absence along the week. He creates evidences that Paul Sothern wants to get rid off Barney, but soon he falls in love with his next door neighbor Mary Chanler (Cyd Charisse). One night, he goes to the Barney's house by Malibu beach but he gives up killing him; instead he tells Barney that he will divorce Claire. He goes home to move to Mary's apartment but out of the blue, Claire returns and tells that Barney was murdered. When Lieutenants Collier Bonnabel (Barry Sullivan) and Edgar Gonsales (William Conrad) come to his apartment, Warren provides alibi to Claire. However the smart Lieutenant Bonnabel proceeds his investigation and finds that Warren Quimby and Paul Sothern are the same man and Warren is arrested. Will Bonnabel finds the truth?"Tension" is a great film-noir, with an excellent story of a meek cuckold that is humiliated when his unfaithful wife moves to the house of her lover and plots an intelligent revenge plan to kill his competitor. Richard Basehart and Audrey Totter are perfect in their roles with excellent performances. He calls off his scheme but the man is killed anyway and he is forced by his wife to provide alibi to her. The "modus operandi" of the cynical detective Collier Bonnabel building tension among the suspects and his final action telling to Claire that the furniture in Paul's apartment had been replaced is unique. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Tensão" ("Tension")

vincentlynch-moonoi Film noir isn't is my most favorite film genre, but every once in a while I'll stumble on one which tickles my fancy...like this one.Milquetoast husband/druggist's wife runs away with another man, who then beats the milquetoast up. He decides to murder the "other man", and develops an alternate persona who will take the blame for the murder. Meanwhile he falls in love, and just as he is about to commit the murder he realizes he'd only be throwing his life away for an unfaithful wife. Then the "other man" ends up murdered, and the milquetoast, who is looking forward to his new life with his new girlfriend, gets blamed...but it's not proved yet. In come the detectives who suspect the milquetoast, but persevere when things lead in a very different direction.Richard Basehart, whom I always thought was an underrated actor, is excellent as the milquetoast/druggist.I have to give credit here to Audrey Totter, an actress it's rather difficult to like as she usually played rather slimy characters...as she does here. But she's excellent.I had mixed feelings about the performance of Cyd Charisse as the new girlfriend; I'd say the performance was "okay". Barry Sullivan did well as the lead police detective. It was nice seeing Tom D'Andrea (later the best pal in "The Life Of Riley") as a worker in the drug store. And William Conrad, big as life (so to speak) is good as the junior police detective.Although I enjoyed it, there are problems with this film. The biggest being -- did police detectives really develop sexual relationships with witnesses just to solve murders? Why does it take the detectives so long to realize that both men played by Richard Basehart are the same man? After all, the only difference is a pair of glasses? Nevertheless, it's an enjoyable little detective story. Recommended.

Spikeopath Tension is directed by John Berry and adapted to screenplay by Allen Rivkin from a story by John D. Klorer. It stars Richard Baseheart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Gough and William Conrad. Music is by Andre Previn and cinematography by Harry Stradling.Tight and compact noir pot boiler that finds Baseheart as a drugstore manager married to bitch babe Totter. Planning to do away with her lover, Baseheart is stumped when someone beats him to it. But he of course is still the main suspect, so creating a new identity for himself he sets about enacting the crime only to find there's a mystery to unravel before hard coppers Sullivan and Conrad jump on him from a great height.Totter files in for classic femme fatale duties as Tension thrives on the post-war period of change as many Americans yearned for a better life away from the disillusionment of their current existence. Baseheart is the classic sap, dreaming of some picket fence nirvana with his vixen wife, only to have his illusions shattered by her callous clambering for the finer things in life, including a more alpha male suitor in the imposing form of Lloyd Gough. But wait! Baseheart has some brains, he has ideas above his station to commit the perfect crime, but inventing a new identity, which is basically just using contact lenses instead of glasses, it opens up a new avenue for him in the shapely form of Cyd Charisse.Rivkin's screenplay gives Totter licence to bitch up big time, with abuse of her sultry charms and a viper tongue delivering barbs, Totter's Claire Quimby is very much a quintessential femme fatale and subsequently Totter walks away with the movie. Elsewhere isn't bad though, it's a roll call of stoic noir performers, from Sullivan's hard- nosed detective and Conrad's doughnut twirling menace, to Gough's looming presence and Charisse's vulnerable beauty, it's a very well cast picture. Sealing the deal is Berry's unfussy direction, Stradling's atmospheric photography and Previn's musical score that puts the tense in Tension.Some of it's daft, such as the Clark Kent line of character invention, and you don't have to be a genius to know who committed the foul deed, but this is a good un' for sure. 7/10