The Dark Mirror ( 1946 )

The Dark Mirror ( 1946 ) (DVD) (*)

$22.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
82 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1946 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Robert Siodmak

Written By:
Nunnally Johnson
Vladimir Pozner

Actors:
Olivia de Havilland ..... Terry/Ruth Collins
Lew Ayres ..... Dr. Scott Elliott
Thomas Mitchell ..... Lt. Stevenson
Richard Long ..... Rusty
Charles Evans ..... Dist. Atty. Girard
Garry Owen ..... Franklin (as Gary Owen)
Lela Bliss ..... Mrs. Didriksen
Lester Allen ..... George Benson
Jean Andren ..... Dist. Atty.'s Secretary (uncredited)
Rodney Bell ..... Fingerprint Man (uncredited)
Lane Chandler ..... Intern (uncredited)
Jack Cheatham ..... Policeman (uncredited)
Ben Erway ..... Police Lieutenant (uncredited)
Bess Flowers ..... Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
Jack Gargan ..... Waiter (uncredited)
William Halligan ..... Sgt. Temple (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy ..... O'Brien - Janitor (uncredited)
Marta Mitrovich ..... Miss Beade (uncredited)
Ida Moore ..... Mrs. O'Brien (uncredited)
Ralph Peters ..... Dumb Policeman (uncredited)
Lane Watson ..... Mike - Assistant (uncredited)

Synopsis:

When Dr. Frank Peralta is found stabbed to death straight to the heart in his apartment, two neighbors swear to the veteran Lt. Stevenson, who is charge of the investigation, that they saw Ruth Collins leaving his apartment late night. The detective interrogates Ruth and she has the alibi of three witnesses that she was walking around in the Jefferson Park during the night. Then he visits Ruth in her apartment and discovers that she has an identical twin sister called Terry. Lt. Stevenson does not know who the killer is and the prosecutor does not accept to open the case. The sisters can not find a job and Dr. Scott Elliott, who is a specialist in twins that had been contacted by Lt. Steenson and has a crush on Ruth, offers a reasonable allowance to the sisters to be submitted to a series of tests for his research of personalities of twins. Scott finds through the results that Terry is a psychotic woman and Ruth might be in danger.

When Det. Lt. Stephenson investigates the murder of a doctor, who was found stabbed in his apartment, he learns that he had dinner with a woman named Teresa Collins the evening of his death. It looks like an open and shut case when several residents of the apartment building identify the woman. It turns out not to be so easy when he learns she has a twin sister, Ruth and neither will implicate the other as being the woman who was there. A psychologist who has made a study of identical twins, Dr. Scott Elliott, agrees to look into the case and concludes that one of them is insane. Complicating matters is the fact that he is falling in love with one of them.

A woman suspected of murdering her doctor boyfriend has an identical twin sister. When both twins have an alibi for the night of the murder, a psychiatrist is called in to assist a detective in solving the case. Through a series of tests, he discovers which twin actually committed the crime and in the course of his investigation he falls in love with the normal twin.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 09 July, 2013.