Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Lachlan Coulson This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

dougdoepke I hope Mitchum was paid extra for all the flopping around he has to do. But then his character Dr. Jeff should have known better. Getting mixed up with spider woman Margo (Domergue) was a dumb move away from his hospital practice and loving nurse Julie. Okay, Jane Russell look-alike Margo is seductive as heck, but she's also wacko as heck. So the two of them are on the run after Jeff thinks he's killed scheming Margo's elderly husband Frederick (Rains). Actually, Jeff's head is reeling with a concussion thanks to batsman Frederick. So, will the two fugitive lovers make it to the Mexican border and freedom before Jeff's head explodes and Margo goes completely wacko. Except for the Hollywood enforced ending, it's a good noir. It's also a different Mitchum, playing a very vulnerable character for a change. Actress Domergue's skills are often derided, but here she manages the slippery Margo in fairly convincing fashion. Basically, director Farrow tells the tale in a series of close-ups, so there're extra demands on the players, especially Mitchum. Plus, it looks like only ugly middle-aged guys live in rural Arizona, so chamber of commerce, look out. Too bad Rains only gets what amounts to a cameo. More of his cynical face-offs with Mitchum would be a real treat. There's been nobody quite like his barbed arrogance before or since.All in all, the 80-minutes amounts to an interesting and suspenseful noir, plus a showcase for both the leads. Now if only the dead hand of the Production Code weren't there to contrive a forgettable ending to a story deserving of something more novel.

Claudio Carvalho In San Francisco, Dr. Jeff Cameron (Robert Mitchum) is ready to date his girlfriend, the nurse Julie Dorn (Maureen O'Sullivan), when they are summoned to the emergency room to attend a suicidal. The mysterious woman recovers and tells that her name is Margo (Faith Domergue). On the next morning, she flees from the hospital but sends a telegram to Dr. Cameron scheduling an encounter with him at home. Dr. Cameron finds that she is a wealthy woman and she tells that she lives with her old father and has no friends. Soon Dr. Cameron dates and falls in love with her and proposes Margo to marry him. However she tells that her father wants her to travel to Nassau with him and she leaves Cameron alone in the restaurant. He drinks a lot and completely drunken, Cameron goes to her house to meet her father Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains) to tell that he wants to marry Margo. But soon he learns that the wealthy Frederick is actually her husband in a marriage of convenience. When they have an argument, Frederick hits him on the head with a stick and Cameron pushes him and Frederick falls fainted on the floor near the fireplace. Cameron brings water to recover Frederick but he finds him dead. Now Margo convinces Cameron to flee with her to Mexico. What will Cameron do?"Where Danger Lives" is a film-noir with a great femme fatale but a weak lead character. Faith Domergue is wonderful in the role of an unstable ambitious and manipulative woman. However, the character Dr. Jeff Cameron is a messy character that begins as a dedicated doctor but becomes inclusive disloyal to his girlfriend, the nurse Julie Dorn. But the worst is the corny conclusion, with Julie visiting him in the hospital nearby Mexico. The cinematography is black-and-white is magnificent. My vote is five.Title (Brail): "Trágico Destino" ("Tragic Destiny")

AaronCapenBanner John Farrow directed this melodramatic thriller that stars Robert Mitchum as Jeff Cameron, a well-liked doctor who one night treats an attempted suicide victim, who turns out to be an attractive but mysterious woman named Margo(played by Faith Domergue) He foolishly begins an affair with her, despite her being married to a man named Lannington(played by Claude Rains). Margo then causes him to kill her husband, which forces them to flee to Mexico, where they stay at a seedy border hotel, waiting on their chance to be smuggled out, even as the police close in... Good cast but film is overripe and uninvolving, with Mitchum playing a man who should be much smarter than he is!

jzappa This peculiar excursion is skillfully shot by Nick Musuraca in the dark black and white nature of the genre in its era, and is capably helmed by John Farrow, who fruitfully captures these delirious visions. It's by and large a character study of an accomplished man blinded by lust, whose life disintegrates as it falls behind him. Mitchum is the guiltless man who is entrapped, but doesn't understand he's innocent until quite late. Too late? Only the will to live in spite of being so far out of his comfort zone and his senses can save him from this interesting spin on the framed-for-murder predisposition of the formula.Mitchum, as was his modus operandi, once again put on airs of sleepy-eyed detachment and barrel-chested reserve, but in this case, he is interesting and sympathetic, realistically showing how a smart guy and such an experienced doctor could be in such a weak position. He genuinely and believably connects to the emotional and sensory reality of his bewildered character, whose feelings and senses are constantly in flux. Likewise, director John Farrow effectively taps the outlandish, hallucinatory traits in this customary noir plot: Mitchum spends the last half of the film barreling down the dirt roads of southern California with a concussion, fainting cyclically and awakening enclosed by some of the murkiest landscape the U.S. has to present.Yes, Mitchum is cast against type as a stable professional, but actually, I think Faith Domergue is equally if not more accountable for the lack of artifice in Mitchum's performance than he is. From moment to moment, and this is most definitely a movie that lives in the present, she genuinely affects him. They're not just saying lines at one another, overlapping their words and movements with some programmed, bottled manner. The sultry, manic, hard-bitten, shifty-eyed edge is real. What's more, Claude Rains as always is superb, in a small role but a pretty important one, where his every motion looks to be controlled over a maniacal wrath all set to gush out, best illustrated by his malicious grin while meeting his wife's lover. And the film's a pleasingly bizarre screwball streak further sets it apart as a unique entry in the film noir canon.