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The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.The untimely murder of a New York glamor-girl sparks an investigation with an emotionally driven detective at the helm.
Max Showalter
- Larry Evans
- (as Casey Adams)
Alexander D'Arcy
- Robin Ray
- (as Alex D'Arcy)
Robert Adler
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Ramsay Ames
- Café Photographer
- (uncredited)
Parley Baer
- 2nd Detective
- (uncredited)
Benjie Bancroft
- Theatre Patron
- (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Milkman
- (uncredited)
Ethel Bryant
- Minor Role
- (uncredited)
Harry Carter
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Martin Cichy
- Theatre Patron
- (uncredited)
Russ Conway
- Detective
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Dwight Taylor
- Steve Fisher
- Leo Townsend(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaIs a nearly scene-for-scene remake of the film I Wake Up Screaming (1941) with Victor Mature and Betty Grable.
- Quotes
Steve Christopher: Slug me with those, Cornell, and I'll square you off if it takes me the rest of my life.
Lt. Ed Cornell: You're not gonna have a very long life, Stevie. You're like a rat in a box, without any holes. But they're gonna make a hole for you...six by three, filled with quicklime.
- ConnectionsFeatures Laura (1944)
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Feisty low budget rises above its material
Before it collapses under the weight of cliché and wooden performances Vicki is a suspenseful whodunit that keeps you second guessing most of the way. In a triumph of form over content this Laura lookalike is textbook economical story telling in its first half hour as tight editing and revealing composition give the film a well ordered pace and a handful of plausible suspects.
Overnight, cafeteria waitress Vicki (Jean Peters) becomes an instant celebrity when she catches the eye of an actor and a theatre critic who promote her. Confident and ambitious she sets her sights on Hollywood but is brutally murdered. An obsessive detective (Richard Boone) demands to be put on the case and his judgment and intent is soon called into question.
Vicki is filled with Freudian and fetish inferences. Suspect intent is ambiguous and the police are brutal in their methodology. All of the characters are petty and unremarkable which levels the playing field most of the way and allows the mystery to flourish. The imagery runs from striking to banal and some of the turns at the end defy logic but for the most part it does what a good mystery does-keep you in the dark for as long as possible.
Overnight, cafeteria waitress Vicki (Jean Peters) becomes an instant celebrity when she catches the eye of an actor and a theatre critic who promote her. Confident and ambitious she sets her sights on Hollywood but is brutally murdered. An obsessive detective (Richard Boone) demands to be put on the case and his judgment and intent is soon called into question.
Vicki is filled with Freudian and fetish inferences. Suspect intent is ambiguous and the police are brutal in their methodology. All of the characters are petty and unremarkable which levels the playing field most of the way and allows the mystery to flourish. The imagery runs from striking to banal and some of the turns at the end defy logic but for the most part it does what a good mystery does-keep you in the dark for as long as possible.
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- Jan 29, 2010
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Şöhret kurbanı
- Filming locations
- Pacific Ocean Park, Santa Monica, California, USA(an opening sequence shows Circus Gardens, which opened in Ocean Park in 1953)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $560,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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