Just what I expected

best movie i've ever seen.

A Masterpiece!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It is actually not earth-shattering as I expected - the main reason to watch this is Robert Mitchum in curious role of a doctor but he had such charisma and presence that I would enjoy watching him in anything.Mitchum and Sean Connery are men I want to be when I grow up. He is somehow drawn into affair with wealthy young woman who naturally is not what she appears to be and in fact she almost destroys him until the end of the movie, but I'm not here to explain or tell the plot. There is very interesting role play between them as strong, silent Mitchum slowly becomes a puppet in hands of initially soft and unprotected woman who (in memorable scene set in a shabby hotel room) turns into tiger. There is a very good cameo by Claude Rains who should have more space because he was excellent and lots of interesting small roles of strangers who more or less dwarf any plan couple has to escape the country. Somehow the final results are not really that brilliant and it turns into two-people stage play but thanks to Mitchum it somehow stands the test of time.

By the time 1950 rolled around, I guess the film noir genre was getting a bit mannered in its delivery. "Where Danger Lives" is a classic example of hack work, albeit with a touch of style, and with Mitchum in the lead, it is, of course, eminently watchable. Claude Rains is superb as well, but unlike Mitchum, he has the good sense to make his contribution a cameo role. (I guess he knows "where danger lives," eh?)Even Mitchum can't save this turkey, however, although he appears to be trying his best. The contrived and rudimentary plot doesn't help; star-crossed lovers on the run, trying to escape a murder rap and get across the border. On the positive side of the ledger, along with Mitchum, this film attains a generally nightmarish atmosphere of pervasive doom which is occasionally effective; it reminded me of Jim Thompson's novel "The Getaway" which was eventually made into a movie with Steve McQueen. In essence, it is a morality play, with Mitchum the noble doctor having the hots for this crazy psychopath, betraying his "good woman"(Maureen O'Sullivan), and paying for his carnal transgression again and again; this is probably the movie's main ace in the hole.This nifty part of the movie is hamstrung by absurd plot contrivances and lazy screen writing, unfortunately. Three examples: every time a radio is turned on, you can bet you are about to get another prime nugget of expository information, perfectly timed and delivered on a silver platter. The "Whiskers Week" plot device is even more comically ridiculous, and lastly, with the amount of cops looking for these two, you would suspect that they murdered an entire classroom of small children or something. (Don't get me started on the "mewing cat" or you might get your eyes scratched out.)Thankfully, this uneven and sloppy movie clocks in at an efficient 82 minutes, so no serious harm done. If you're a Mitchum fan like me, you'll probably want to give it a look; just don't expect too much, and you'll probably find it mildly diverting.

Film noir plots in which a fall guy gets framed by a femme fatale are not exactly rare but what distinguishes this movie from other similar ones is the way in which the victim's personal road to hell is depicted as a nightmare. The respectable man's normally good judgement deserts him when he becomes infatuated by an attractive woman and later, the effects of alcohol and concussion further impair his powers of reasoning. The disorientation and confusion that follow make his predicament increasingly worse as he experiences the kind of illogicality and loss of control that are common in dreams and feels himself being helplessly propelled towards an uncertain destiny.This sense of everything being off-kilter is also reflected elsewhere in the movie as the femme fatale is mentally unbalanced, the people that the couple meet when they're on the run are extremely eccentric and a whole series of wonderfully off-balance visual compositions are also featured.At the end of a long shift in a San Francisco hospital, hard-working Dr Jeff Cameron (Robert Mitchum) attends to an attempted suicide case. The patient is a young woman known simply as Margo (Faith Domergue) who recovers quickly and is soon discharged. Mysteriously, neither Margo or the man who brought her to the hospital disclose any other details of their identities or addresses but shortly after, Jeff receives a note from his patient containing her address. In an attempt to ensure that she doesn't try to commit suicide again, he visits her mansion and she gives him an account of why she tried to kill herself. Although he already has a regular girlfriend, Jeff continues to see Margo and falls in love with her.When Margo tells Jeff that she's got to accompany her very old father to Nassau the next day, he decides to meet Mr Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains) in the hope of changing his mind and in order to overcome his nerves, fortifies himself with a number of strong drinks. At the mansion, the young doctor tells Mr Lannington that he's in love with Margo and is shocked to be told that Margo is actually the old man's wife who married him for his money. Disgusted by this revelation, Jeff leaves the mansion but then goes back in after hearing Margo scream.Lannington had apparently ripped a earring out of one of Margo's ears and then hits Jeff with a poker before the younger man knocks his attacker out. Jeff is perpetually shaken and unsteady after this incident and after going to the bathroom to freshen up, returns to find that Lannington is dead. Margo persuades him that the police will be suspicious of the circumstances under which her husband died and so the couple go on the run together. Their journey to the Mexican border proves to be difficult and hazardous as Jeff realises he's suffering from concussion and they also get swindled by a whole succession of unscrupulous people.Robert Mitchum and Claude Rains are so good in their roles that they easily outshine everyone else in the cast and make the whole production far better than it might otherwise have been. The growing tension and paranoia that prevails during the couple's road trip is expertly created and maintained and their experiences of feeling trapped and disorientated are also strongly emphasised by the movie's wonderful cinematography and the use of some terrific low-angle shots. "Where Danger Lives" is extremely enjoyable and some of its twists are top class.

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!