Female Fugitive (1938)
ジャンル : ドラマ, スリラー
上映時間 : 58分
演出 : William Nigh
脚本 : Bennett Cohen, John T. Neville
シノプシス
Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
失踪したベストセラー・ホラー作家サター・ケイン。彼の行方を追う保険調査員のトレントは、アシスタントを伴い、地図に出ていない田舎町を目指して車を走らせる。町に近づくと、子供がだれ一人いない深夜に少年が自転車に乗って走るのとすれ違ったり、後に老人が同じ自転車に乗って走っていたり、夜だったのがトンネルを抜けると朝になっていたりと不思議な体験をする。絵の中の枯れ木が違うものに変容したり、愛想のいいお婆さんが悪鬼だったりと、小説が現実を浸蝕する悪夢の世界に巻き込まれていく。
犬猿の仲の男女が恋の催眠術にかかってしまったら……? という設定のロマンティック・ラブ・コメディ。ミステリー風味も効いたおしゃれな作品だ。ウディ・アレン監督・主演作。
Merle Kramer works as a stenographer for a psychiatrist. She is casually dating Karl Benson, a private eye and former cop. Merle mentions in passing that one of her boss's patients is an author with recurring dreams of murdering his wife, and she includes the fact that the wife owns valuable jewels. When the wife is found murdered in a manner identical to that of her husband's dream, the husband is naturally the prime suspect. But as the investigation of the police and insurance investigator Joe Cooper proceeds, it turns out that several people in the case, including Merle, are not what they seem.
Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to rob the bank where the husband works of $100,000, then hide the money in a safe place and return for it after they serve out their sentences. All goes according to plan until they get out of prison, when they find that they're being trailed by an insurance investigator and the husband's old cellmate, who has decided that he wants a cut of the money.
A botched diamond burglary and a dead publishing company executive set off a string of murders and betrayal.
A model and a private eye help a New York insurance investigator on a deadly case in Acapulco.
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.
A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.
A society doctor helps an insurance-company file clerk check deaths related to a big policy.
A U.S. businessman (Warren Douglas) abroad is the patsy for the theft of a rajah's jewels.